Legendary boxer Floyd Mayweather is set to return to the boxing ring for an exhibition fight against Aaron Chalmers at the O2 Arena on February 25. The 45-year-old was initially expected to face Muay Thai fighter Liam Harrison, but Harrison suffered a knee injury and could not go on with the bout. Although retired, Mayweather is not a stranger to exhibition matches, as he has five...
Tyson Fury and Oleksander Usyk have agreed to fight each other next in a heavyweight unification bout. The two fighters currently share all four major heavyweight world titles between them, and the highly anticipated fight would decide the undisputed heavyweight world champion. Top-rank promoter Bob Arum revealed that both Fury - the WBC champion - and Usyk - the unified WBO, WBA, and IBF heavyweight champion...
The World Boxing Association has called for Oleksandr Usyk to battle British boxer Daniel Dubois in a mandatory world heavyweight title defence. Usyk, the current WBA "super", WBO, and IBF champion following back-to-back victories over Anthony Joshua has his eye on a unifying bout against current WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Dubois, who retained his WBA "regular" title with a third-round stoppage win over Kevin Lerena...
Imo State athlete Chukwuemeka Igboanugo passed away during his boxing fight at the 2022 National Sports Festival in Delta State on Tuesday. Igboanugo was competing in the 81kg category and he died after he was knocked out by his opponent from Anambra State with efforts to resuscitate him proving abortive. Igboanugo was reportedly unconscious and could not get up after he was hit in the chin....
World heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury has called off his proposed fight with Anthony Joshua. Fury had set a deadline for Joshua to sign contract papers for the fight on Monday but he did not put pen to paper before the ultimatum. The all-British heavyweight battle was proposed to take place on December 3 at the Principality Stadium with a 60-40 split in the champion’s favour, a...
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