Over $1 million in prize money will be on the line in the Liguanea Club Tennis Classic, which serves off this morning at the club on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston. This will be the first senior tournament this year in the Llockett McGregor...
Jamaica’s boxing fraternity is mourning the loss of another of its stalwarts. Willie Yap, who served as a member of the Jamaica Boxing Board for many years, and also assisted several boxers on their journey to stardom, died on Friday, May 17, at...
Seventeen-year-old Blaise Bicknell, one of Jamaica’s top junior tennis players, continues to have a good year on the circuit. On Saturday, he won the ITF Delray Beach Junior Tournament in Florida by defeating the top-seeded player, Blu Baker of...
Two Jamaican boxers, super heavyweight Ricardo Brown and lightweight Shiloh Defreitas, have qualified for the Pan American Games to be held in Lima, Peru, from July 26 to August 11. The duo booked their spots at the qualifying tournament for the...
Professional and amateur boxing will return to the Corporate Area tonight, with a six-fight Pro-Am card promoted by Bruising Gym led by trainer Carl Grant in association with I-Fight promoters Chris Joy and Junior Lincoln and sponsors Dunn’s...
Spearheaded by three international representatives, super heavyweight Ricardo Brown, middleweight Janathan Hanson and welterweight Joshua Frazer-Stanley Couch gym, pulled off an upset victory over defending champions, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF...
"Bunny was one of the best boxers produced by Jamaica, and his trail-blazing career influenced numerous champions since then," said Jacques Deschamps Jr, whose father, Jacques Deschamps Sr, (now deceased), managed George Leslie 'Bunny' 'The Whip'...
The possibility of 32 year-old Nicholas "The Axeman" Walters and his former mentor and manager Jacques Deschamps renewing their partnership in 2019, is real.This was disclosed at the weekend when the Gleaner spoke to both parties, and pointed to the...
Wray and Nephew, a long time sponsor of boxing in Jamaica, and the main sponsor of the very popular Contender boxing series, has decided to make another substantial contribution to the sport. The company has agreed to refurbish the Boxing Board's...
Hundreds of youngsters and their parents from West Kingston filled the Denham Town Community Centre to capacity recently as the Jamaica Boxing Board had a successful launch of its Gloves over Guns community boxing programme, with five boxers from...
Boxing Board president Stephen "Bomber" Jones has hailed as a great success the use of sport, and particularly boxing, as a means of social intervention.Jones made his comments at a media briefing last Thursday at the Sports Development Foundation...
"This is the third time that I will be fighting for the Contender title, and I am going to take it this year," declared Jamaica's Richard 'Frog' Holmes yesterday, as he commented on his chances tonight, in the 10-round final of the 2018 Wray and...
It will be Team Jamaica versus Team Canada in the finals of the Wray and Nephew 2018 Contender series on July 25 as Canada's Ricardo 'Magic Man' Salas knocked out Devon 'Concrete' Moncriffe at two minutes and 25 seconds of the first round on...
"One more river to cross," said Richard 'Frog' Holmes after he defeated Canada's David Leblond by unanimous decision at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium to reach the final of the Wray and Nephew Contender series for the third time....
Over 150 junior tennis players from the USA, Europe, Canada, and the Caribbean, including Jamaica, will start competing for valuable international points tomorrow at two venues, the Liguanea Club and the Eric Bell Tennis Centre, in the 2018 ITF/...
The controversy monster reared its head in the Wray & Nephew Contender series again last Wednesday night at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium, when Ricardo 'Magic Man' Salas, the No. 1 rated boxer for Team Canada, scored a fifth-round technical knockout victory over Team Jamaica's Nico 'Venom' Yeyo...
Nico Yeyo, representing Team Jamaica, and Ricardo Salas from Team Canada, will exchange punches tonight at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium on Old Hope Road in St. Andrew, for the last semi-final spot available in the Wray and Nephew...
Richard 'Frog' Holmes made it to the semi-finals of the Wray and Nephew Contender series once more on Wednesday night when he scored a unanimous decision over Team Canada's Lerone Whyte at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium.Judges...
Richard 'Frog' Holmes, a two-time finalist in the Wray & Nephew Contender boxing series, with a 17-8 record, will fight for a place in the 2018 semi-finals tonight, when he takes on Canadian Larone Whyte over five rounds at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium...
"This win is for my mother, who died recently and will be buried on Saturday. I am feeling great tonight, and the title is my goal," said a subdued but happy Devon 'Concrete' Moncriffe on Wednesday night after scoring an impressive fourth-round...
Two confident first-round winners, Devon Moncriffe with a 13-8-1 record representing Team Jamaica, and Waseem El-Sinawi 2-2, fighting for Team Canada, will clash tonight at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium on Old Hope Road in Kingston,...
Kemahl 'Hitman' Russell, one of Jamaica's brightest prospects for another world title in boxing, made another step up the ladder on Friday, when he was elevated to No. 28 in the middleweight rankings, by the World Boxing Council (WBC), one of the...
"I am now aiming for a spot in the final," said a happy and exuberant David Leblond, who represents Team Canada, after he had beaten Team Jamaica's Donovan 'Police' Campbell in the first quarter-final bout of the 2018 Wray...
