Canada-based Jamaican heavyweight boxer, Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, registered victory number 12 in his promising ring career when he scored a unanimous decision over Adam Kolarik from the Czech Republic in an eight-round bout at the Great Canadian...
FORMER AMATEUR lightweight boxing champion, Jamaican Trevor Thonson, took another positive step towards his goal of becoming a world champion last Saturday night, when he defeated Argentine boxer Pablo Marcos Villafane on points over eight rounds,...
BOXERS FROM the Americas had one of their poorest showings at the Olympic Games, when they ended up with only nine medals from the total of 52 that were competed for at the recently concluded Paris Olympic Games. Two hundred and forty-nine boxers,...
BOXING IS one of the most popular sports at the Olympic Games, and 249 boxers- 125 male and 124 female divided into seven male and six female weight classes - will vie for medals in Paris, France, starting on Saturday, July 27, and ending on...
RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown will never forget the experience of helping Oleksandr Usyk, who is now the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world, prepare for his fight against Tyson Fury. “[It] was a great experience for me, and one that I...
Showing some of the speed, tenacity and punching power that made him the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super World Featherweight champion in 2014, Nicholas ‘The Axeman’ Walters scored a unanimous points win over Joseph ‘Blessed Hands’ Adorno on...
NICHOLAS ‘THE Axeman’ Walters will climb into the ring tonight with, as he told The Gleaner yesterday, “victory on my mind”, when he takes on Joseph ‘Blessed Hands’ Adorno in the 10-round main bout of a five-fight card at the Whitesands Events...
Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, who has set his sights on a world top-10 ranking in the heavyweight division soon, is scheduled to have his first fight this year on March 2, at the Toronto Casino Resort in Canada, against Rafael Sanchez from Mexico. The...
Former Jamaica amateur lightweight boxing champion Trevor Thonson, who is now doing well as a professional, has started the year with a bang, as he knocked out Mexican Kevin Beltran Aguirre, in the fifth round of a fight scheduled for eight rounds...
“MY GOAL is to be world champion again and this new year will be an important one for me. I returned to boxing last February after a six-year break, had two fights and won them. I am satisfied that I still have it in me, and I will be busy this...
Brazil produced one of the biggest surprises in the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, when their boxing team of seven men and six women topped the medal table with 12. Their female team won four gold, one silver and one bronze medal,...
The Jamaican/Canadian boxing twins, Chann and Trevor Thonson, whose father is a Jamaican, are making steady progress in their careers, and both of them scored impressive victories recently. Chann, who became a professional boxer first, now has an...
“He was the better man tonight and I have no excuses,” former three-belt welterweight boxing champion Errol Spence Jr said last Saturday night after his first defeat in 29 fights. In what surprisingly turned out to be a one-sided fight before a...
The first welterweight fight in boxing history for all four major world titles, which takes place tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Texas, USA, will feature Errol Spence Jr who has strong Jamaican ties, and American Terence Crawford. Spence’s father...
Canada-based super welterweight boxer Joshua Frazer, whose goal is to get a world ranking early next year, had another impressive victory last Saturday night when he scored a unanimous points victory over Mexican Angel Rosales in a six-round fight...
Canada-based super welterweight Jamaican boxer Joshua Frazer will return to the ring tonight, after a 11-month layoff, to take on Mexican Angel Rosales in a six-round bout, part of a six-fight card being put on by United Boxing Promotions at the...
Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley, Jamaica’s most decorated female boxer, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHF) at Canastota, New York, on Sunday, along with five other boxers who, like her, have won several world titles in their...
“I AM still wondering if I am dreaming, and that I will wake up to find that it was all in my imagination or some sort of April Fool’s joke,” said Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley when she spoke with The Gleaner yesterday about her induction into the...
PROMISING JAMAICAN heavyweight boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown burnished his boxing record last Saturday night when he scored a second-round technical knockout victory over Mexican Miguel Angel Flores Gomez, in a fight that was scheduled for six...
Just over a month since he demolished Mexican Jesus Angel Nerio by way of a first round knockout, Jamaican heavyweight boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown will be in the ring against another Mexican, Miguel Angel Flores Gomez, tonight in a fight scheduled...
It was a successful return to the ring for Jamaican super middleweight boxer Kemahl ‘Hitman’ Russell last Saturday night, after an absence of five years when he scored a fourth-round TKO (technical knockout) victory over Marcos Cornejo of...
Kemahl ‘Hitman’ Russell, once a rising star in Jamaica’s boxing firmament, returns to the ring tonight in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, when he takes on Marcos Jesus Cornejo from Argentina, in a super-middleweight eight-round contest that is part of...
RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown will have a new opponent for his fight on Saturday night at the Pickering Casino Resort in Canada, on a card being promoted by United Boxing Promotions. Jhan Carlo Delgado, the man he was slated to meet in an eight-round...
Two Jamaican boxers, heavyweight Ricardo “Big 12” Brown and super middleweight Kemahl “Hitman” Russell, will have important fights in Canada on Saturday, April 29, when they have feature roles on a boxing card being presented at the Pickering...
JAMAICAN HEAVYWEIGHT boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown scored another impressive knockout victory last Saturday night, taking less than one minute to make his record 6-0. Fighting in one of the preliminary bouts of a five-fight card promoted by United...
