FORMER WORLD Boxing Association (WBA) Super World featherweight champion Nicholas ‘The Axeman’ Walters, will make his 2024 ring debut on Wednesday, March 27, when he clashes with promising American lightweight boxer Joseph ‘Blessed Hands’ Adorno,...
JAMAICA’S TOP heavyweight boxing prospect, Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, faces the most serious challenge of his young professional career when he goes up against Hungarian boxer Jozsef ‘The Gladiator’ Darmos over eight rounds on Saturday at the...
MORE THAN 600 boxers from 118 countries, including Jamaica, will be taking part in the Men’s World Boxing Championships, which start in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, today. Promoted by the International Boxing Association (IBA), the championships will be...
CHANN AND Trevor Thonson, the boxing twins who have Jamaican and Canadian lineage, continued their steady progress to what they hope will be world boxing titles, when they both won their fights last month at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City,...
A BAN on female boxing in Cuba, one of the powerhouses in Olympic boxing, which has been in place for more than 60 years, has ended. In an announcement in Havana last month, Cuba’s Institute of Sports announced that female boxing would no longer...
ALICIA ‘SLICK’ Ashley, Jamaica’s most decorated female boxer, and holder on five occasions of three major world titles in different weight classes, will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York on June 11 next...
THE JAMAICAN/CANADIAN twins, Chann and Trevor Thonson, both scored technical knockout (TKO) victories on Friday night during a seven-fight boxing card at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia, that was promoted by Cedric...
ONE OF Jamaica’s top junior tennis players, 14-year-old Alyssa James, flew the Jamaica flag proudly recently when she was runner-up in the USTA Florida Bobby Curtis Championships, which took place from June 11-15. She competed in the 16 and under...
MEMBERS OF the International Boxing Association decided at the Extraordinary Congress of the organisation in Zurich, Switzerland, recently, that it would change its long-standing acronym AIBA to IBA, in keeping with a name change that took place...
