Boxing

The best club at the maiden Nationwide Boxing League will win a N20 million prize, the organisers, YUCATECO Boxing Promotions, have said. According to YUCATECO Promotions’ Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Omole Yakubu Imadu, the league will run for 12 weeks with different boxing clubs fighting for the purse. Imadu explained that the league will hold…

Efe Ajagba’s World Boxing Council (WBC) title fight on Saturday against Australia’s Joe Goodal is the Nigerian’s biggest fight since he lost on unanimous decision to a tactically superior Frank Sanchez in 2021.

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury beat mixed martial arts fighter Francis Ngannou in a split decision after their boxing bout went the distance in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF) President, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah (rtd.), has confirmed that the nation indeed applied and was admitted into the new body challenging International Boxing Association’s (IBA) authority as world’s amateur boxing controlling body.

Who took Nigeria to the ‘rebel’ World Boxing body, the organisation battling to wrestle control of international amateur boxing from the International Boxing Association (IBA)? That is the question members of the Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF) are trying to unravel.

Anthony Joshua will have to wait until March at the earliest to face Deontay Wilder after the heavyweight showdown suffered a new delay, reports mirror.co.uk.

Kazakh southpaw Janibek Alimkhanuly stopped Germany's Vincenzo Gualtieri in the sixth round on Saturday to unify two middleweight world boxing titles in a showdown of unbeaten champions.

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion Kamaru Usman has been scheduled to fight Khamzat Chimaev at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi on October 21, 2023.

Tyson Fury will make his much-anticipated return to the ring in October against the former UFC Heavyweight Champion — Francis Ngannou. He's known for his quick rise to the top and scary knockout power, but many are predicting the fight to be a routine victory for Fury and a warm-up for bigger things in 2024. Fury is…

After narrowly losing to Keisuke Matsumoto via unanimous decision on August 30 in Japan, Nigerian boxer, Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola will be making a return to the ring in a bout tagged: ‘Homecoming’ against Ghana’s Emmanuel Quartey on October 27. The boxing show being sponsored by Zion Sports Incorporation Management, will hold inside the Indoor Sports…

Flykite Productions, organisers of the 29th GOtv Boxing Night, have assured fans of maximum protection ahead of the event, which is set to hold today. 

Organisers of GOtv Boxing Night, Flykite Productions, have assured the fans of cracking boxing bouts and gifts galore at GOtv Boxing Night 29, which will take place on 24 September.