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Published:Saturday | March 30, 2024 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Wednesday | March 27, 2024 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2024 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | January 23, 2024 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Wednesday | January 3, 2024 | 12:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“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...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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,...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | July 31, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“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...

Published:Saturday | July 29, 2023 | 12:07 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2023 | 12:09 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2023 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | June 13, 2023 | 1:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | June 8, 2023 | 1:38 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“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...

Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2023 | 1:22 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2023 | 12:36 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | May 1, 2023 | 12:30 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | April 29, 2023 | 12:39 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | April 27, 2023 | 1:11 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Friday | April 21, 2023 | 1:05 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Wednesday | February 1, 2023 | 1:19 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 29, 2022 | 12:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Keeping his recently minted professional boxing career in top gear, Jamaican Joshua Frazer, the former Caribbean amateur welterweight champion, defeated Mexican Luis Gonzalez by a first-round knockout last Saturday night at the Montreal Casino, in...

Published:Friday | January 7, 2022 | 2:51 PMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Another of Jamaica's amateur boxing champions, Canadian-based Trevor Thonson, is scheduled to move into the professional ranks tonight when he makes his debut in Louisiana, New Orleans, USA, on a card labelled "Bash at the Mash" by Boswell...

Published:Monday | December 6, 2021 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Boxer Joshua Frazer is feeling optimistic after winning his professional debut against Paul Ezequiel Acosta on Saturday. Frazer defeated the Argentinian by technical knockout in the second round at the CAA Centre in Ontario, Canada. “Winning my...

Published:Saturday | December 4, 2021 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Joshua Frazer, one of Jamaica’s leading amateur boxers, makes his professional debut tonight at the CAA Center, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, against Pablo Acosta, a boxer with a 8-6-2 record. The fight is scheduled for six rounds and will be on a...

Published:Thursday | November 18, 2021 | 6:52 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

CARIBBEAN BOXING lost one of its most prominent and influential stalwarts recently when 68-year-old Jacques ‘Jacky’ Deschamps Jr, who has always had close ties to Jamaica, died of a heart attack at his home in Haiti on November 7, after returning...

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