Boxing

Super welterweight boxer, Taiwo ‘Gentle Boy’ Olowu, yesterday, said his target is to claim the West African Boxing Union (WABU) super welterweight title at GOtv Boxing Night 30 on December 26.

Jarrell Miller, who once came close to fighting Anthony Joshua, does not think that Otto Wallin will be an easy fight for the Brit, writes talksports.com.

Deontay Wilder believes that he and Anthony Joshua are on a path to facing each other in 2024 and the fight the world wants to see will happen, reports Skysports. Both Joshua and Wilder are on the same bill on Saudi Arabia on December 23, with the former facing Otto Wallin and Wilder against Joseph…

The crisis in the country’s amateur boxing has taken a new turn with the indefinite suspension of the Nigerian Boxing Federation’s (NBF) Vice President, Azania Omo-Agege, by the body for acts allegedly inimical to the interest of the country. But as if taking a cue from the NBF, the International Boxing Association (IBA) in what…

The Emeka Agba Boxing Promotions on Sunday held its maiden tournament at the Old School Hall, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, that enthralled fans to no end.

Oleksandr Usyk has said that he wants his heavyweight clash with Tyson Fury to hold in February, reports manchestereveningnews.co.uk.The Ukrainian was due to fight Fury in Saudi Arabia on December 23, but the fight was then delayed.

.Tyson praises fighter for sticking to game plan Former two-time world heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has told promoter, Eddie Hearn, that he has absolutely no interest in fighting newcomer, Francis Ngannou, when they discussed the opportunity of a big-money crossover clash, britishboxingnews.co.uk reports. The 44-year-old boxing promoter explained that Joshua expressed zero interest in taking…

Fresh from a fourth-round knockout defeat of old foe, Joe Goodall, on Saturday, Texas-based Nigerian fighter, Efe Ajagba, says his focus now is to get his hands on any of the world heavyweight boxing titles held by Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

Nigerian heavyweight boxer Efe Ajagba avenged his split-decision defeat to Joe Goodall at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland by knocking out the Australian boxer in the fourth round of their 10-round fight at the Tahoe Blue Event Center in Stateline, Nevada, USA, on Sunday morning (Nigerian time). Ajagba, who was ushered into the arena…

Nigerian rapper Efemoney (Efe Michael Ejeba) will headline the kick-off show for the world heavyweight boxing match between Efe Ajagba and Australia's Joe Goodall on Saturday 4th November at the newly opened Tahoe Blue Event Centre in Reno Tahoe, Nevada, USA. Efemoney will perform his latest hit song, Play and win chess which eulogizes the…

The best club at the maiden Nationwide Boxing League will win a N20 million prize, the organisers, YUCATECO Boxing Promotions, have said. According to YUCATECO Promotions’ Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Omole Yakubu Imadu, the league will run for 12 weeks with different boxing clubs fighting for the purse. Imadu explained that the league will hold…

Efe Ajagba’s World Boxing Council (WBC) title fight on Saturday against Australia’s Joe Goodal is the Nigerian’s biggest fight since he lost on unanimous decision to a tactically superior Frank Sanchez in 2021.