Kenya’s lightweight Nick Okoth won gold medal in the Africa Confederation Boxing Championship to confirm his place in the men’s 2017 AIBA World Championship slated for Hamburg, Germany later in the year. The 34-year-old boxer is among the three male Kenyan boxers who have qualified for the global show with bronze medalists John Kyalo…
Indio, CA (June 26, 2017) – South Texas’s Omar “El Panterita” Figueroa, a former lightweight world champion, heads into training camp on a balmy 118-degree day in Indio, CA, home to his trainer Joel Diaz and his new boxing home-base since January. Figueroa re-enters the boxing ring on Saturday, July 15 when he takes on…
The Week in Boxing – June 26. Check out Eric Armit’s comprehensive report of all the past week’s fights below!
LAS VEGAS (June 26, 2017) – Two-division World Boxing Association (WBA) World Champion Beibut Shumenov has relinquished his WBA cruiserweight world title, due to his career-ending eye injury, and he has announced his retirement from the ring. “I have regrettably relinquished my WBA cruiserweight title and retired from boxing because of a traumatic eye…
MACON, GEORGIA (June 26, 2017) – Boxing veterans, Greg Hannely, founder of the Prince Ranch Boxing facility, and Jared Shaw have joined forces, as they are happy to announce the birth of Witness Sports Management (WSM), a boxing management company that will guide the careers of some of the best young fighters in the sport.…
Uganda’s welterweight boxer Muzamir “King Kong” Kakande beat Clair Merven of Mauritius in the final of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) African Boxing Championships in Congo Brazzaville on Sunday. Kakande’s victory ensured Uganda returned with a gold medal as well as two silver medals. Uganda will be represented by three boxers at the…
Cameroon won two gold medals in women’s competition today at the African Boxing Championships in Brazzaville. Christelle Aurore Ndiang won the featherweight title as Azangue Aubiege Yannicke clinched top honours at welterweight. Nidang comfortably came through against Algeria’s Nour El Houda in the Republic of Congo’s capital, winning the fight by unanimous decision…
For the second time is as many years, there will be no Nigerian boxer in the World Boxing Championships ring coming up later in the year. Seven Nigerian boxers from the Nigerian Army traveled to the 2017 African Boxing Championship in Congo Brazzaville which started on June 17th and all came back failing to…
Namibia’s Jonas Junias advanced to the semi-final stage of the African Boxing Championships (AFBC) in Brazzaville, Congo.
KAMPALA — Bombers captain Musa ‘Chicago’ Shadir (light welter) is yet to contend with the agonising quarterfinal defeat to Namibia’s Jonas Junius at the African Confederation Boxing Championship (AFBC) Thursday night. Shadir, 20, looked a very improved boxer in the last one year and oozed confidence throughout the build-up to Africa’s most prestigious amateur…