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Published:Friday | June 27, 2025 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“I am ready” was the terse response from heavyweight boxer Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown to The Gleaner’s question yesterday as to how he was feeling for his 10-round fight tonight at the Centre Videotron...

Published:Saturday | June 7, 2025 | 12:07 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s top heavyweight boxer, Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, who has an impressive 12-0 record with 11 of those victories coming inside the distance, will return to the ring after an eight-month break, when he clashes with 35 year-old Russian-born...

Published:Tuesday | March 11, 2025 | 12:11 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

FORMER WORLD World Boxing Association featherweight champion Nicholas ‘Axeman’ Walters suffered the second loss of his career on Saturday night in Long Beach, California, when he retired at the end of the third round of his fight against Mexican...

Published:Tuesday | February 25, 2025 | 12:11 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

FORMER WORLD super featherweight champion, Jamaica’s Nicholas ‘The Axeman’ Walters, will return to the ring on March 8 when he fights Mexican Luis Torres over 10 rounds at the Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. This will be the co-feature...

Published:Saturday | October 26, 2024 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Canada-based Jamaican heavyweight boxer, Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, registered victory number 12 in his promising ring career when he scored a unanimous decision over Adam Kolarik from the Czech Republic in an eight-round bout at the Great Canadian...

Published:Wednesday | August 28, 2024 | 12:09 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

FORMER AMATEUR lightweight boxing champion, Jamaican Trevor Thonson, took another positive step towards his goal of becoming a world champion last Saturday night, when he defeated Argentine boxer Pablo Marcos Villafane on points over eight rounds,...

Published:Wednesday | August 14, 2024 | 12:12 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

BOXERS FROM the Americas had one of their poorest showings at the Olympic Games, when they ended up with only nine medals from the total of 52 that were competed for at the recently concluded Paris Olympic Games. Two hundred and forty-nine boxers,...

Published:Friday | July 19, 2024 | 12:09 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

BOXING IS one of the most popular sports at the Olympic Games, and 249 boxers- 125 male and 124 female divided into seven male and six female weight classes - will vie for medals in Paris, France, starting on Saturday, July 27, and ending on...

Published:Wednesday | May 29, 2024 | 12:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

RICARDO ‘BIG 12’ Brown will never forget the experience of helping Oleksandr Usyk, who is now the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world, prepare for his fight against Tyson Fury. “[It] was a great experience for me, and one that I...

Published:Saturday | March 30, 2024 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Showing some of the speed, tenacity and punching power that made him the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super World Featherweight champion in 2014, Nicholas ‘The Axeman’ Walters scored a unanimous points win over Joseph ‘Blessed Hands’ Adorno on...

Published:Wednesday | March 27, 2024 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

NICHOLAS ‘THE Axeman’ Walters will climb into the ring tonight with, as he told The Gleaner yesterday, “victory on my mind”, when he takes on Joseph ‘Blessed Hands’ Adorno in the 10-round main bout of a five-fight card at the Whitesands Events...

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2024 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Ricardo ‘Big 12’ Brown, who has set his sights on a world top-10 ranking in the heavyweight division soon, is scheduled to have his first fight this year on March 2, at the Toronto Casino Resort in Canada, against Rafael Sanchez from Mexico. The...

Published:Tuesday | January 23, 2024 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

Former Jamaica amateur lightweight boxing champion Trevor Thonson, who is now doing well as a professional, has started the year with a bang, as he knocked out Mexican Kevin Beltran Aguirre, in the fifth round of a fight scheduled for eight rounds...

Published:Wednesday | January 3, 2024 | 12:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“MY GOAL is to be world champion again and this new year will be an important one for me. I returned to boxing last February after a six-year break, had two fights and won them. I am satisfied that I still have it in me, and I will be busy this...

Published:Saturday | November 4, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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,...

Published:Tuesday | October 17, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | July 31, 2023 | 12:08 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“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...

Published:Saturday | July 29, 2023 | 12:07 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2023 | 12:09 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2023 | 12:13 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Tuesday | June 13, 2023 | 1:10 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | June 8, 2023 | 1:38 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

“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...

Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2023 | 1:22 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2023 | 12:36 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | May 1, 2023 | 12:30 AMLeroy Brown/Gleaner Writer

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...

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