Month: August 2024

Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko has described Guillermo Rigondeaux as the most technical fighter he ever faced in his career. Back in December 2013, Ghana’s Agbeko, now 44, lost by 12-round decision to the gifted Cuban in a WBO junior featherweight title fight in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Agbeko (38-5, 28 KOs) says that even though
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Associated Press Aug 16, 2024, 10:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TIARET, Algeria — With an outpouring of fans greeting her as she arrived in her hometown on Friday, Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif extolled Algeria for backing its athletes and said she hoped to again make her country proud in the future. The football-obsessed
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One day after Twitter’s Boog WIlliams broke the news, ProBox TV’s Garry Jonas confirmed that former champions Nicholas Walters and Joseph Diaz Jr will headline an October 9th event in Plant City, Florida. “Axe Man” Walters’ (29-1-1, 22 KO) first major fight since his humiliating 2016 loss to Vasiliy Lomachenko saw him box his way
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WHEN Turki Alalshikh speaks the world of boxing listens. His influence on the sport has rocketed in 2024 and in the February 8 issue of Boxing News he was named as the most powerful person in boxing. His methods have brought Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren out of a cold war and into a warm,
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By: Sean Crose Although there’s no major fights this weekend in the world of boxing, there’s definitely going to be an interesting throwdown in Canada as the 38 year old Sergey Derevyanchenko takes on rising super middleweight Christian Mbilli at Quebec’s Centre Videotron. The bout, which is scheduled for 10 rounds in the supermiddleweight division,
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