Stories by Leroy Brown

"I know that my career is at a difficult stage at this time, but 2017 will be a better year for me, and I will be a champion again by the end of the year," Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters told The Gleaner yesterday.Walters was reflecting on the past...

Ramel 'Sub Zero' Lewis will be making an effort to end 2016 on a positive note tonight when he clashes with Barbadian Christopher 'Shaka' Henry in an eight-round junior middleweight main bout on a Pro-Am Dinner-Boxing show at the Lloyd Erskine...

Jamaica's Alyssa James, a promising eight-year-old tennis player who attends Hillel Preparatory School, created a major upset in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday when she defeated JoAnna Kennedy, the No. 1-seeded player in the 8-10 category of the...

"Nicholas was not prepared for his fight against Lomachenko, physically, mentally or technically" was the view of his estranged manager, Jacques Deschamps, when The Gleaner asked him yesterday, why Jamaica's Nicholas "The Axeman" Walters, had given...

Jamaican heavyweight boxer Alex Stewart, who made his name as a top rated fighter between 1986 and 1999, died suddenly on November 16 at a hospital in Mount Vernon, New York, from a blood clot in the lung. He was 52 years old and leaves wife,...

Jamaican light-heavyweight boxer Jermaine Bowen stole the spotlight last Saturday night when he scored an exciting unanimous points victory over Sheldon Lawrence from Trinidad and Tobago, at the Barbican Beach Sports Complex on East Kings House Road...

A declaration that boxing fans will be able to see regular shows, by both professional and amateur boxers over the next 12-month period, was made by Boxing Board president Stephen Jones on Wednesday as he officially launched a Pro-Am Boxing card...

Boxing in the Rio 2016 Olympics lasted throughout the 16 days of competition from August 5-21 and was marked by both exciting boxing and controversies.There were complaints about the judging, and two fights in particular - a bantamweight contest...