Jai Opetaia (22-0-0) worked out for the media today on the Gold Coast. The IBF & Ring Cruiserweight World Champion will go on „enemy soil” and take on hard hitting, unbeaten home favorite Jordan Thompson (15-0-0) in his first world title defense in Wembley, England September 30th. Opetaia looked confident ahead of his first title […]
Kosovo born German Senad Gashi (26-3-0) will get a big chance on the end of November in South Africa, when he will fight local star Kevin Lerena (29-2-0) for the WBC interim Bridgerweight title. As BILD reports, Senad Gashi gets the opportunity in a weight class, which was newly established by World Boxing Council. Gashi […]
The finals will be held at the African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Dakar, Senegal today but 10 female boxers already earned their quotas for Paris 2024 during the semi-finals. Algeria’s Roumaysa Boualam earned several African titles and medals from the main events since 2017 therefore she was one of the favourites for the spots […]
Another son of a legendary boxer is preparing to make his pro debut. Marco Antonio Barrera Jr. will enter in to the ring on 23rd of September in Long Beach California, against Sirdarius Smith (0-3-0) from New York. „I wanna be a world champion like my father and I wanna create my own legay”. Barrera […]
One of the top boxing powers, the Cubans arranged their first national selection event for that at the Rafael Trejo Boxing Gym in Havana on August and their second meeting took place there as well. A bronze medallist from the recent World Boxing Championships, Alejandro Claro Fiss won the flyweight (51kg) following his success over […]
The exciting three-day long Ruska Memorial Tournament was held in Finland’s amazing city, Lapland’s capital, in Rovaniemi. The new edition of the International Santa Claus Ruska Tournament delighted the picturesque city of Rovaniemi, which is located in North Finland and famous for the Santa Claus, furthermore, its Aurora Borealis and beautiful environment. Finland’s top female […]
South Africa’s boxing manager of the year winner (2023) Damien Durandt, the son of late highly successful trainer Nick “Mthakathi” Durandt, produced his second world boxing champion on Yves Ngabu. Ngabu demolished Australian Floyd Masson on Saturday. He stopped Masson in 6th round and won the IBO World title in Cruiserweight. Durandt, in the fight in […]
Shefat Isufi (38-4-2) won the WBA Continental Europe Light Heavyweight title on Saturday night in Munich. Isufi won by unanimous decision against German-Armenian boxer Armenak Hovhannisyan (14-4-1). Judges Bertrand Chagnoux and Michel Maksiuta scored the fight 99:91 and judge Karoline Puetz scored the fight 98:92. This fight was the main event of the second boxing […]
Promoter of Anthony Joshua, Eddie Hearn, says that he is waiting to receive contract for a 2024 showdown with Deontay Wilder. The battle of two former world champions is expected to take place in January in Saudi Arabia. Hearn was in serious discussions with Saudi-based Skill Challenge Entertainment, who were interested in staging the event. […]
The 21st edition of the Mustafa Hajrulahovic Talijan Memorial Tournament was held for the elite and youth boxers in the capital city of Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Sarajevo. The competition venue was the Hotel Hills Sarajevo Congress and Termal Spa Resort and the international event was named after Division General Mr. Mustafa Hajrulahovic Talijan, Bosnia […]
