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10 Dec
London-Based Nigeria’s Taiwo “Esepor” Agbaje has declared that he is ready to win the world featherweight title. Esepor, who is billed to fight Richard Pumicpic of the Philippines for the World Boxing Federation Intercontinental featherweight....
2 Apr 2022
Corporate strategist, theologian and development economist, Dr. Osaren Emokpae, has been appointed Chairman of the Wilson Badejo Foundation (WBF).
21 Feb 2022
Knockout specialist, Nigeria’s Onoriode ‘Godzilla’ Ehwarieme, recorded another milestone in his professional boxing career in the early hours of yesterday, when he defeated United States’ Jeff Holcomb in round one of their scheduled six-round bout in Cleveland, Tennessee.
24 Nov 2021
World Boxing Federation (WBF) champion, Nigeria’s Onoriode ‘Godzilla’ Ehwarieme, has started his professional career in the United States of America on a sound note.
6 Apr 2021
Reigning World Boxing Federation (WBF) world super featherweight champion, Rilwan ‘Real One’ Oladosu, has thanked the organisers of GOtv Boxing Night for the N1 million prize awarded to him at the event.
4 Apr 2021
Rilwan ‘Real One’ Oladosu and Rilwan ‘Baby Face’ Babatunde emerged winners of World Boxing Federation (WBF) titles at the GOtv Boxing Night 22 on Friday at the Rowe Park Sports
24 Mar 2021
The impending World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental super featherweight clash between Nigeria’s Rilwan “Real One” Oladosu and Ghana’s Emmanuel “Afuko Addo” Quartey will go down...
11 Jan 2021
After winning the World Boxing Federation (WBF) International Super Featherweight title last year, Nigerian Ridwan ”Scorpion” Oyekola has emerged the WBF Boxer of the Month for December 2020.
1 Jan 2021
Thrilled by the fireworks displayed by the two boxers that fought for the vacant World Boxing Federations (WBF) Super Featherweight belt in Ibadan last weekend, the president of the body, Howard Goldberg, has nominated the bout before his board as the best in 2020. The WBF Fight of the Year according to the information posted…
24 Dec 2020
The actors are in town and talking tough. Yesterday, Nigeria’s Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola and his opponent in the WBF Super Featherweight battle in Ibadan on Sunday, Lucas Matias Montesino, were in Lagos ....
23 Dec 2020
Nigerian-born British World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Anthony Joshua, will be at the ringside to cheer Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola to victory when he battles Argentina’s Lucas Matias Montesino
14 Dec 2020
Organisers of the World Boxing Federation (WBF) featherweight bout between Nigeria’s Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola, and Argentina’s Lucas Matias Montesino on December 27, 2020, believe the fight

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