Boxing

The recent AIBA World Boxing Championships 2015 in Doha was the eighteenth edition of the event, and the first to see boxers having to qualify from their respective Confederation’s Boxing Championships. In all, 243 of the 733 who started...

DOHA, 14 OCTOBER 2015:  The tour circulated around popular destinations such as Aspire Sports Academy, dedicated to provide sports training and education to students with sporting potential in an exceptional learning and sporting environment, and Aspetar – the world's...

New Delhi: Middleweight boxer Jitender Kumar reflecting on Pakistan’s participation in the upcoming South Asian Boxing Championship has said that sport should not be mixed with politics. The 29-year-old boxer from Rohtak insisted that India’s bad relations with Pakistan should...

Wednesday night was finals night in Doha, and confirmation of the first five World Champions at light flyweight, bantamweight, light welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight at a packed Ali Bin Hamad Ali Attiyah Arena. Russia’s WSB southpaw Vasilii Egorov faced off...

Cuba Domadores’ flyweight Yosbany Veitia and Baku Fires’ European Games Champion Elvin Mamishzada displayed similar game-plans early on, but it was the Azeri who’s patient tactics paid off. Veitia was left chasing the match, and Mamishzada chose his moments...

The Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent will be the site of the World Series of Boxing Season VI Team Finals on Saturday night, where the Season IV Champions Cuba Domadores meet this year’s surprise team the British Lionhearts. Ten bouts of...

DOHA, 12 OCTOBER 2015:  On the second and final day of semi-finals at the Doha 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Qatar another twenty high octane bouts entertained the crowds from around at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah...