Articles from the ‘Boxing’ category
Posted by Contributor on January 19, 2011 at 11:24 am in Boxing, Sports
World champion Ricky Burns will make the second defence of his World Boxing Organisation super-featherweight title against Joseph Laryea in March with Glasgow’s Braehead Arena the favoured venue. Scotland’s finest: Ricky Burns will face Ghanaian Joseph Laryea in March Photo: ACTION IMAGES By Gareth A Davies Laryea, Ghana’s national champion at 130lbs and ranked No 11 [...]
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Posted by Contributor on January 5, 2011 at 9:02 pm in Boxing, Sports
Klitschko (left) and Chisora had been due to meet on 11 December Britain’s unbeaten heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora’s fight with IBF and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko has been rearranged for 30 April in Germany. Chisora had been due to meet Klitschko in December but the fight was postponed because of an injury to the Ukrainian. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on December 21, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Boxing, Other Top Stories
International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight champion, Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko arrived in Ghana on Tuesday to a rapturous welcome at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra. Agbeko touched down at approximately 0900 GMT in the company of members of his winning team and was met on arrival by a Government delegation led by Minister of Youth [...]
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Posted by Contributor on December 14, 2010 at 9:52 am in Boxing, Sports
Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko has set his sights on unification of titles only 24 hours after dominating Columbian Yonnhy Perez to win back his IBF Bantamweight title. The Bantamweight Champion with an enviable record of (28-2, 22 KOs) told GNA Sports on phone from the USA that unifying the IBF, IBO and WBO titles remains [...]
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Posted by Contributor on December 13, 2010 at 9:54 am in Boxing, Sports
(AP) — Ghana’s Joseph Agbeko was a unanimous winner and Mexico’s Abner Mares won a split decision Saturday in the semifinals of the Bantamweight Tournament. Agbeko (28-2) beat Yonnhy Perez (20-2-1) and Mares (21-0-1) edged Vic Darchinyan (35-3-1) in the event, which featured four of the world’s top 118-pound fighters. Agbeko and Mares will now [...]
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Posted by Contributor on December 6, 2010 at 9:19 am in Boxing, Sports
Before a standing room only crowd at Bally’s in Atlantic City, Ghana’s Ayi Bruce, upset hometown favorite Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez and in the process picked up the Vacant IBA Continental Welterweight Title winning a majority decision over ten exciting and action packed rounds. Alvarez-Bruce headlined a seven bout card promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 29, 2010 at 10:23 am in Boxing, Sports
source: malaya.com.ph Mexican Antonio Margarito has vowed to do better than Joshua Clottey when he takes on Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 13 (Nov. 14 in Manila) for the World Boxing Council super-welterweight crown at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Clottey, of Ghana, covered up like a shell when he fought Pacquiao last March and [...]
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Posted by Contributor on October 4, 2010 at 9:56 am in Boxing, Other Top Stories
Boxing is generally believed to be a money-spinning sport. On a single night, on March 13, this year, Ghana’s Joshua Clottey earned $1.5m even though he lost to Philippine’s Manny Pacquiao in a World Boxing Organisation (WBO) welterweight title fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. However, the frightening rate at which the [...]
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