Tag: Boxing

  • Nigeria, Ghana, others to feature in African Boxing Championships

    Nigeria, Ghana, others to feature in African Boxing Championships

    Nigeria will take part in the African Zone two Boxing Championships will be staged in Dakar, Senegal.

    Secretary-general of the Senegal Boxing Federation, Anta Gueye revealed this during a press conference held recently.

    Gueye, who is also a member of Africa Boxing Confederation Board of Directors, said she expects a full house in the Dakar tournament to be held in March 2023.

    The championship tournament will feature a 1-Star certification course for coaches, referees and judges will feature 15 countries from Zone two.

    The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

  • Boxing: Gervonta Davis beats Leo Santa Cruz for WBA super-featherweight title

    Boxing: Gervonta Davis beats Leo Santa Cruz for WBA super-featherweight title

    Undefeated Gervonta Davis took back his WBA ‘super’ world super-featherweight title from Leo Santa Cruz with a sixth-round knockout in Texas.

    Davis, 25, whose own WBA lightweight title was also on the line, landed a left uppercut to leave Mexico’s Santa Cruz, 32, on the canvas.

    It was Davis’ 24th win from 24 fights – and a first knockout for Santa Cruz.

    “I’m going to continue to show people all over the world that I’m the best,” American Davis said.

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    “I don’t have to call anybody else out. I’m the top dog. Just line them up, and I’ll knock them out one by one,” he added.

    About 10,000 fans were allowed into San Antonio’s 72,000-capacity Alomodome Arena to watch the fight, with masks and social distancing rules in place.

    Davis had vacated the WBA super world super-featherweight crown last year so he could move up to the lightweight ranks.

    Santa Cruz, who was taken to the hospital for a check-up after the fight, had taken the title last November with a unanimous points victory over American Miguel Flores.

    Earlier, San Antonio’s Mario Barrios cheered his hometown with a sixth-round stoppage of fellow American Ryan Karl to retain his WBA light-welterweight title.

  • GOtv Boxing Night 20 brings WBF Heavyweight bout to Nigeria

    GOtv Boxing Night 20 brings WBF Heavyweight bout to Nigeria

    • The 20th edition of GOtv Boxing Night will be headlined by a World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental heavyweight title bout between US-based Nigerian, Onoriode “Godzilla” Ehwariemi, and Argentina’s Ariel “Chiquito” Baracamonte.

    This was announced in Lagos on Thursday at a press conference addressed by the organisers, Flykite Productions.

    The bout is one of the nine scheduled for the show slated to hold on Dec. 28 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.

    Jenkins Alumona, CEO of Flykite Productions, explained that the bout, which is the biggest to be staged on Nigerian soil in decades, is a part-fulfilment of the promise to host world-class bouts at the show.

    “Nigeria has not hosted a bout of this profile in decades. We made a promise to put Nigeria back on the global boxing map and we are happy to see the promise come to fruition.

    “We believe this bout provides an indication of the return to health of Nigerian boxing since GOtv launched an intervention to revive the sport which, long before 2014, was in coma,”Alumona said.

    He added that the nine-bout event will also feature live musical performances by Zlatan Ibile, Mayorkun and Oritsefemi among others.

    In addition to the headline clash, fights lined up include the West African Boxing Union (WABU) lightweight title defence by Rilwan “Real One” Oladosu, who takes on Ghana’s Ezekiel Anan.

    WABU welterweight title defence by Rilwan “Baby Face” Babatunde against Ghana’s Sanitor Agbenyo.
    National featherweight challenge clash between Taiwo “Esepo” Agbaje and Olusegun Moses; as well as national super featherweight duel between Ridwan “Scorpion” Oyekola and Sikiru “Omo Iya Eleja” Shogbesan.

    Also in action are Adewale “Masevex” Masebinu, who takes on Olanrewaju Segun; and Adeyemi “Sense” Opeyemi, who fights Sadiq Adeleke.

    Alaba Omotola takes on Bolaji Abdullahi; and rising female ring artist, Cynthia “Boby Girl” Ogunsemilore faces Aminat Yekini.

    The best boxer at the show will win a cash prize of N1million attached to the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy.(NAN)