Articles from the ‘Boxing’ category
Posted by Contributor on June 16, 2009 at 3:48 pm in Boxing, Sports
IBF Bantamweight champion, Joseph Agbeko has dissociated himself from reports linking him to derogatory comments said to have been made against Joshua Clottey’s loss to Miguel Cotto last Saturday. A comment was posted by one “Joseph Agbeko Kingkong†on a popular Ghanaian news portal, www.ghanaweb.com, which admonished Clottey for the loss. Ebenezer Noye, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 3:47 pm in Boxing, Sports
Ghanaian boxer Godfred Sowah will face Scottish Lee McAllister for the vacant Commonwealth Lightweight title on Friday, June 19 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The bout billed for the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen has been commissioned by the British Boxing Board of Control and would be promoted by Tommy Gilmour of St. Andrews Sporting Club. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on June 14, 2009 at 1:02 pm in Boxing, Sports
credit: Sky Sports Miguel Cotto retained his WBO welterweight title with a gruelling split decision victory over Joshua Clottey at Madison Square Garden on Saturday evening. Judges Don Trella and John McKaie scored the bout for Cotto by margins of 116-111 and 115-112 respectively, while Tom Miller gave it to former IBF champion Clottey by [...]
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Posted by Contributor on June 12, 2009 at 11:17 am in Boxing, Sports
If Manny Pacquiao ever wanted a role model outside the ring, he would be well advised to look to a real professor. This “Professor†is Ghana’s revered national sporting icon, former world champion and Hall Of Famer Azumah Nelson. When he was a brilliant boxer, usually “teaching†his opponents in the ring, Nelson was [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:21 am in Boxing, Sports
By: AFP Manny Pacquiao will be sitting at ringside to watch Miguel Cotto defend his welterweight crown Saturday against Ghana’s Joshua Clottey, the Filipino superstar sizing up his potential next opponent. Manny Pacquiao will be sitting at ringside to watch Miguel Cotto, pictured in February 2009, defend his welterweight crown Saturday against Ghana’s Joshua Clottey, [...]
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Posted by Contributor on June 11, 2009 at 10:52 am in Boxing, Sports
By Dave Skretta, AP Sports Writer Joshua Clottey will walk into sold-out Madison Square Garden on Saturday, just a few miles (kilometers) from where the Ghanaian now makes his home in the Bronx, and almost certainly face a wall of vocal opposition. It’ll be the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, and thousands [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 27, 2009 at 9:32 am in Boxing, Sports
By Adam Berlin Special to CBSSports.com It’s May 22, the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, but for Clottey, the IBF welterweight champ, a day at the beach isn’t on the agenda. A day in the country is. From Madison Square Garden, which will host the big event, it’s a 70-mile shot west on Route 80 [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 21, 2009 at 9:32 pm in Boxing, Sports
Duaf International Limited, distributors of Ozone Energy drink is to announce a sponsorship package for the Greater Accra Amateur Boxing Association (GAABA) on Friday, May 22, at the Prisons Canteen Complex. Gideon Quartey, Acting Chairman of GAABA told GNA Sports that the package is to support the organization of the Amateur Boxing League as well [...]
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