Still reeling from the shocking death of one of the country’s bright prospects Anele Makhwelo on Wednesday, South African boxing has been hit by yet another tragedy following the death of boxing ...
For decades, boxing was one of Ghana’s most powerful sporting symbols, producing world champions such as D.K. Poison, Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey, Joshua Clottey and Joseph Agbeko, among others.
It is just over a week since one of Britain’s best-loved boxers died aged only 46. The more that emerges about the events leading up to it, the more it seemed to have come completely out of the blue.
Unless it involves Naoya Inoue, Japanese boxing rarely makes international headlines. Saturday was one of those rare exceptions when the Japanese Boxing Commission confirmed the near-simultaneous ...
GEORGE GROVES revealed his own personal tragedy in the boxing ring sent him into an early retirement. Groves hung up his gloves at the age of just 30 after defeat to Callum Smith in 2018. But two ...
When an athlete wins in the U.S. Olympic Trials, it is usually a story of triumph. For Jordan Fuentes, his tale of success has been laced with tragedy. One of the greatest achievements of Fuentes’ ...
The Victorian boxing community is in shock following the death of Colombian national Luis Lizcano, 29. Luis who was pronounced dead on Thursday after he sustained a traumatic head injury at the ...
CHICAGO — Patrick Day went down, and for a moment, you cheered. Patrick Day stayed down, and if you’re reading this today, you’re probably still stunned. This has been a rough stretch for boxing. In ...
“It’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me in boxing,” Frazer Clarke recalls. Here he is, sitting in a studio in London, yet mentally the heavyweight is back in a ring in Tokyo, in the ...