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World Boxing News looks at 'The Golden Years' of boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya during two decades between 1989 and 2009

By Mauricio Sulaimán President of the WBC – Son of José Sulaimán February isn’t over yet, and the amount of traveling I have done has been tremendous.

Today, February 13, marks the 25th anniversary of Oscar De La Hoya's welterweight showdown with Ike Quartey, a modern classic!

The story of Ghana's high-earning athletes, such as footballers and boxers, is one of missed opportunities and unrealised potential. Over the past decades, these sports stars have earned collectively, by conservative estimates, over one billion dollars. Yet, the lack of a structured approach towards economic initiatives has seen the majority of these earnings evaporate, leaving many athletes in financial ruin post-retirement.

By Evan Jacobs Englebrecht Promotions & Events returned to the Hangar at the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa, CA for their fifth sell out

For an umpteenth time in my almost two-decade career, I sadly have to revisit this subject and this time around it’s an emergency. The national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers, have less than a week to participate in the next African Championships in Cameroun and as is almost always the case, the team is […]

For an umpteenth time in my almost two-decade career, I sadly have to revisit this subject and this time around it’s an emergency. The national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers, have less than a week to participate in the next African Championships in Cameroun and as is almost always the case, the team is […]

Sport globally is seen as a unifying element but sometimes this fact is challenged heavily by isolated incidents, especially after two-time world champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko’s recent comments about suffering ‘discrimination’  in his home country Ghana gives cause for worry. Agbeko in a recent interview with Joy Sports Muftawu Nabila Abdulai on the Prime […]

Former Ghanaian boxer, Joseph Agbeko believes he is not accorded with the level of respect a two-time former world champion, should receive. Agbeko won the first of his bantamweight titles in September 2009 when he defeated Luis Alberto Perez, over 7 rounds. The ‘King Kong’ won all rounds on all cards, with the referee forced […]

With some 48 hours to go for the much-awaited meeting between Isaac Dogboe and Robeisy Ramirez on April 1, certain aspirations are not lost at all on the head of his team.                                      After working with a number […]