Zarika-Phiri is on! Kenya’s World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight women’s champion Fatuma Zarika has issues a war cry to former world champion Catherine Phiri ahead of their WBC world female bantamweight fight set for Saturday, December 2, at Carnivore Grounds, Nairobi. Speaking with Citizen Digital the Kenyan pugilist who has been honing her…
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PROVIDENCE, RI — Evander Holyfield’s The Real Deal Boxing, the promotional entity under his Real Deal Sports and Entertainment, hosted a media workout this afternoon at Manfredo’s Boxing Gym in Cranston, RI for fighters on this Friday night’s ‘Real Deal Championship Boxing V’ card, telecast on CBS Sports Network (9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT) from…
Heated words were exchanged at the kickoff press conference before the Ali Trophy semi-final bout between WBA Super World Champion George Groves (27-3, 20 KOs) and IBO-Champ Chris Eubank Jr. (26-1,20 KOs) at the Manchester Arena on February 17, 2018. “The hype behind this fight will be huge,” said Groves at Tuesday’s press conference in London. “I hope…
The Secretary of the Nigeria Traditional Boxing Premier League, Ahmed Jada, said on Monday that Sokoto State would host the fourth edition of the traditional boxing tournament next month. Jada made this known in Abuja that the tournament would hold at the Trade Fair Complex on Old Airport Road in Sokoto. He said…
GUWAHATI, India (November 26, 2017) — Coachella, California-native Citlalli Ortiz closed out her impressive 2017 Women’s Youth World Championships campaign with a split decision victory over Russia’s Nataliya Sychugova to take her first major international title in Guwahati, India. “Today feels like one of the best days of my life,” stated Ortiz following her win. “After…
Ghana’s former Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, has expressed disappointment with the government’s 2018 budgetary allocation for sports. “This government does not intend to spend on sports development in this country,” he said. The former minister, who is a Member of Parliament for Odododiodio constituency, made this known…
Light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera could have been in the main event against Sergey Kovalev fighting for a vacant world title Saturday night, but he didn’t like the money offered and the title belt had not yet made available, so he turned it down. Instead, Barrera, also in a mandatory position to challenge titleholder…
Sergey Kovalev, looking to shake off back-to-back losses to Andre Ward, made a triumphant return to the ring, blowing away an overmatched Vyacheslav “Slava” Shabranskyy to win a vacant light heavyweight world title Saturday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. “I did it. I worked really hard. Mentally, physically,…
MTC Nestor Sunshine Promotions’ last boxing bonanza of the year, scheduled for December 2, is an event not to be missed. Sakaria Lukas, Jeremiah Nakathila and Harry Simon Jr. will top the bill and, according to promoter Nestor Tobias, they are all ready to deliver. “They all look in great shape and are certainly…