It’s going down this Saturday, August 19th, in Accra’s Bukom Boxing Arena! It’s Ghana vs. UK in Azumah Nelson’s Fight Night, Round IV and only one country will leave the ring with bragging rights. In the main event, Ghana national super featherweight champion Wahab Oluwaseun (10-0) will throw down versus the UK’s John “The…
Undefeated 140-pound world champions TERENCE “Bud” CRAWFORD and JULIUS “THE BLUE MACHINE” INDONGO, collide in a world title unification battle, Saturday, August 19, at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska. The winner will be crowned the first undisputed king of the 140-pound division of the four-belt era. Photos by Mikey Williams/Top Rank. The rumble…
“Sugar” Shane Mosley is hanging up the gloves for good at age 45. Mosley can look back and reflect on a fine career that will likely land him in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. It began in southern California, where a 15-year-old Mosley sparred with the likes of Azumah Nelson, going on to amass…
The Kenya male boxing team is back in training ahead of the 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championship slated for August 25 to September 3 in Hamburg, Germany. The team that broke camp to participate in the August 8 General Elections regrouped on Friday at the Mathare Police Depot where preparations for the biennial amateur…
SAN ANTONIO – The quest for the World Boxing Super Series Muhammad Ali Trophy in the cruiserweight division comes to San Antonio, Texas on September 23 when Cuban WBA World Champion Yunier ‘The KO Doctor’ Dorticos (21-0, 20 KOs) faces Russian Dmitry ‘Russian Hammer’ Kudryashov (21-1, 21 KOs) in a quarter-final bout at the Alamodome.…
Sabitu Oladejo, Assistant Coach of Niger State Boxing Council, says the provision of requisite facilities for the sport will likely produce boxers of the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jnr. Oladejo this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja ahead of the upcoming showdown between Mayweather Jnr. and…
Former World Champion Krzysztof Glowacki (27-1, 17 KOs) and fellow Polish star Mateusz Masternak (39-4, 26 KOs) have signed-up to act as reserves in the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight quarter-finals. Assuming they are not needed to act as reserves, the fighters will box on the undercards of the quarter-final they are assigned to.…
ACCRA, GHANA – There was a festive atmosphere at Kotoka International Airport as the UK squad touched down Sunday night, brimming with confidence. They’ll have an opportunity to back up their words with their fists this Saturday night against local counterparts in Azumah Nelson’s Fight Night, Round IV: Ghana vs. UK. The combatants…
Former two-time world champion Paulie Malignaggi was brought in by Conor McGregor to help the UFC prepare for his August 26th showdown versus Floyd Mayweather. But when McGregor released photos of Malignaggi getting tagged and what appeared to him getting knocked down, Paulie unceremoniously left McGregor’s camp. Since then, Malignaggi has been making the rounds,…
Nigerian-born British world boxing heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has put an end to the ‘rift’ he had with fellow British boxer Amir Khan over an alleged affair with Khan’s wife Faryal. Joshua was falsely accused by Khan of sleeping with Faryal after an apparently photoshopped picture of Joshua and Faryal was sent to the…