Brazil produced one of the biggest surprises in the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, when their boxing team of seven men and six women topped the medal table with 12. Their female team won four gold, one silver and one bronze medal,...
The Jamaican/Canadian boxing twins, Chann and Trevor Thonson, whose father is a Jamaican, are making steady progress in their careers, and both of them scored impressive victories recently. Chann, who became a professional boxer first, now has an...
“He was the better man tonight and I have no excuses,” former three-belt welterweight boxing champion Errol Spence Jr said last Saturday night after his first defeat in 29 fights. In what surprisingly turned out to be a one-sided fight before a...
The first welterweight fight in boxing history for all four major world titles, which takes place tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Texas, USA, will feature Errol Spence Jr who has strong Jamaican ties, and American Terence Crawford. Spence’s father...
Canada-based super welterweight boxer Joshua Frazer, whose goal is to get a world ranking early next year, had another impressive victory last Saturday night when he scored a unanimous points victory over Mexican Angel Rosales in a six-round fight...
Canada-based super welterweight Jamaican boxer Joshua Frazer will return to the ring tonight, after a 11-month layoff, to take on Mexican Angel Rosales in a six-round bout, part of a six-fight card being put on by United Boxing Promotions at the...
Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley, Jamaica’s most decorated female boxer, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHF) at Canastota, New York, on Sunday, along with five other boxers who, like her, have won several world titles in their...
“I AM still wondering if I am dreaming, and that I will wake up to find that it was all in my imagination or some sort of April Fool’s joke,” said Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley when she spoke with The Gleaner yesterday about her induction into the...
PROMISING JAMAICAN heavyweight boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown burnished his boxing record last Saturday night when he scored a second-round technical knockout victory over Mexican Miguel Angel Flores Gomez, in a fight that was scheduled for six...
Just over a month since he demolished Mexican Jesus Angel Nerio by way of a first round knockout, Jamaican heavyweight boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown will be in the ring against another Mexican, Miguel Angel Flores Gomez, tonight in a fight scheduled...
It was a successful return to the ring for Jamaican super middleweight boxer Kemahl ‘Hitman’ Russell last Saturday night, after an absence of five years when he scored a fourth-round TKO (technical knockout) victory over Marcos Cornejo of...
Kemahl ‘Hitman’ Russell, once a rising star in Jamaica’s boxing firmament, returns to the ring tonight in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, when he takes on Marcos Jesus Cornejo from Argentina, in a super-middleweight eight-round contest that is part of...
RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown will have a new opponent for his fight on Saturday night at the Pickering Casino Resort in Canada, on a card being promoted by United Boxing Promotions. Jhan Carlo Delgado, the man he was slated to meet in an eight-round...
Two Jamaican boxers, heavyweight Ricardo “Big 12” Brown and super middleweight Kemahl “Hitman” Russell, will have important fights in Canada on Saturday, April 29, when they have feature roles on a boxing card being presented at the Pickering...
JAMAICAN HEAVYWEIGHT boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown scored another impressive knockout victory last Saturday night, taking less than one minute to make his record 6-0. Fighting in one of the preliminary bouts of a five-fight card promoted by United...
Keeping his recently minted professional boxing career in top gear, Jamaican Joshua Frazer, the former Caribbean amateur welterweight champion, defeated Mexican Luis Gonzalez by a first-round knockout last Saturday night at the Montreal Casino, in...
Another of Jamaica's amateur boxing champions, Canadian-based Trevor Thonson, is scheduled to move into the professional ranks tonight when he makes his debut in Louisiana, New Orleans, USA, on a card labelled "Bash at the Mash" by Boswell...
Boxer Joshua Frazer is feeling optimistic after winning his professional debut against Paul Ezequiel Acosta on Saturday. Frazer defeated the Argentinian by technical knockout in the second round at the CAA Centre in Ontario, Canada. “Winning my...
Joshua Frazer, one of Jamaica’s leading amateur boxers, makes his professional debut tonight at the CAA Center, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, against Pablo Acosta, a boxer with a 8-6-2 record. The fight is scheduled for six rounds and will be on a...
CARIBBEAN BOXING lost one of its most prominent and influential stalwarts recently when 68-year-old Jacques ‘Jacky’ Deschamps Jr, who has always had close ties to Jamaica, died of a heart attack at his home in Haiti on November 7, after returning...
A series of impressive performances in recent tournaments and an improved ranking have earned young Jamaican tennis star Alyssa James an invitation to participate in the Adidas-sponsored Easter Bowl Junior Tennis Tournament, which takes place in...
Errol Spence Jr, one of the long line of world boxing champions with Jamaican ties, successfully defended his International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight titles last Saturday night, when he scored a unanimous...
WORLD-RATED BOXING referee and judge Eddie Cotton died from complications arising from the novel coronavirus on Friday. Cotton, who lived in New Jersey, United States of America, officiated in numerous world title fights, and also in several...
What was supposed to be a three-week holiday from her job in Shanghai, China, as a boxing coach has turned into a nightmare for former five-time world boxing champion Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley, who is now under a self-imposed quarantine in Fort...
An emphatic endorsement of the Jamaica Boxing Board’s ‘Gloves over Guns’ project was given recently by Her Excellency Laurie Peters, Canada’s high commissioner to Jamaica, as she gave the main address at the opening of the Montego Bay Boxing Gym,...
