Beijing- China (PANA) -- Former top contender for the WBC Light middle weight tit le, Obisia Nwampa, has lamented the poor show of Nigerian boxers at the Beijing O lympic games. Full text...

Beijing- China (PANA) -- What could have been a befitting birthday gift to his compatriot and fellow boxer turned a nightmare for Olanrewaju Durodola, who was out-punched by Cuba's Acosta Duarte Osmai in the heavyweight category of the boxing event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Full text...

Beijing- China (PANA) – The head of Nigeria's eight--man medical support team at the Beijing Olympic Games, Dr Akin Amao says Nigeria's Izobo Dauda, who was beat e n by his Ghanaian rival Samir Bastie will require surgery to enable him to stay i n his chosen career. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian Joshua Clottey Saturday beat American Zab Judah t o win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title in Las Vegas, US. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Congolese boxer and two-time world TWABA and UBC lig ht heavyweight champion, Mukadi Manda, said here Monday he had decided to end hi s professional career. Full text...

Vacoas- Mauritius (PANA) -- Here are the results of the 5th round of the African Cup of Nation (CAN) boxing championships Thursday at the Vacoas Boxing Center in Central Mauritius. Full text...

Vacoas- Mauritius (PANA) -- Here are the results of the bouts in the 4th round of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) boxing championship on Wednesday at the Vacoas Boxing Centre in central Mauritius 48kg Category: Mogajane Bathusi (Botswana) beat Ramy Elawady (Egypt) (5-1, 8-3, 9-3, 10-4) Thomas Essomba (Cameroon) beat Christopher Adeenaden (Mauritius) (5-1, 9-1, 15-1, 20-4). Full text...

Vacoas- Mauritius (PANA) -- Here are the results of the African Cup of Nations (C AN) boxing chamionships third round on Tuesday at the Vacoas Boxing Centre in ce n tral Mauritius. Full text...

Vacoas- Mauritius(PANA) -- Here are the results of the second round of the Africa n Cup of Nations (CAN) boxing championships Monday in the Vacoas Boxing centre i n central Mauritius. Full text...

Vacoas- Mauritius (PANA) -- Following are the results of week-end's bouts in Maur itius as the second edition of the African Cup of Nations Boxing championships k i ck off at the Vacoas boxing Centre in the centre of the island. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- The zonal (zone 4) African Boxing cham pionships began here Tuesday with boxers from Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatoria l Guinea, Chad, and hosts Central African Republic participating. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Victor Kuwornu of Bronx Gym suffered his first defeat in t he nine-week old Greater Accra Amateur Boxing Association (GAABA) League when he bowed to Attoh Quarshie Gym's Michael Offei Dodoo at the Prisons Canteen, Canton m ent in Accra, on Friday night in a top brass lightweight contest. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ebenezer Moni Sowah of Attoh Quarshie Gym beat Iddrisu Yak ubu of Fit Square Gym via a unanimous points' decision when they met in the welt e rweight division at the Eighth Week Fixture of the Greater Accra Amateur Boxing L eague at the Prisons Canteen in Accra at the weekend. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Ghanaian kickboxing family is preparing fervently to a ccord Enoch Effah, the World SAVATE and D. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritius Boxing Centre located in Vacoas, 30 km south of the capital, will host the second edition of the African Boxing Cup of Nations on 12-22 June, a sports source told PANA on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's amateur boxing authorities have announced plans to hire a foreign coach for the country's boxing team to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Five Ghanaian boxers will hoist their national flag when t he boxing segment of the Beijing Olympic Games gets underway later in the year. Full text...

) Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Samuel Peter's victory against Oleg Maskaev in the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title fight in Cancun, Mexico, Saturday night has again put Nigeria on the world's boxing map. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers Monday celebrated the victory of Samuel Peter over Oleg Maskaev in their World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title fight in Cancun, Mexico. Full text...

Cancun- Mexico (PANA) -- Nigeria's Samuel Peter Saturday night stopped Oleg Maskaev in the sixth round to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title at the Plaza De Toros in Cancun, Mexico. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A key member of the British Boxing Club, currently in the country as a guest of the Greater Amateur Boxing Association (GAABA), is displea s ed with the seizure of a boxing ring he brought into the country as a gift to th e ir hosts. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Lantey Addy of Ghana became the new World Boxing Intercontinental Bantamweight Champion on Thursday morning when he won a unanimous points' decision over compatriot Isaac Nettey after 12 fierce rounds of pugilistic action. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria has honoured the World Boxing Council (WBC) interim heavyweight champion, Samuel Peter, with a national award, with President Umaru Yar'Adua bestowing him with the Order of the Niger (OON). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's Samuel Peter, the interim World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion, arrived in the commercial city of Lagos early Wednesday to a warm welcome by his compatriots, including government and sports officials. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The delayed World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title fight between Nigeria's Samuel Peter and Oleg Maskaev, earlier scheduled for 6 October at the Madison Square Garden in New York, will now take place at the same venue 2 February, 2008, sources close to the promoters said. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Hundreds of Nigerians in New York stormed a popular night club in the early hours of Sunday to celebrate Samuel Peter's successful world heavyweight title defence. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers Monday paid tribute to US-based Nigerian boxer Samuel Peter, a day after he successfully defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) interim heavyweight champion in New York city. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers Monday paid tribute to US-based Nigerian boxer Samuel Peter, a day after he successfully defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) interim heavyweight champion in New York city. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The World Boxing Council (WBC) interim heavyweight champion Samuel Peter of Nigeria has successfully defended his title through a unanimous decision over American Jameel McCline at the Madison Square Garden in New York City Saturday night. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A 15-member body constituting the Greater Accra Regional Kickboxing Association (GAKBA) has been inaugurated as part of efforts to develop and popularise the sport in the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The interim World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion, Samuel Peter of Nigeria, will defend his title against American Jameel McCline 6 Oct. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The board of the World Boxing Council (WBC) has voted to name Nigerian boxer Samuel Peter WBC heavyweight interim world champion, sources close to the boxer's camp in the US told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The much-anticipated World Boxing Council (WBC) title fight between Nigeria's Samuel Peter and naturalised American Oleg Maskaev, scheduled for 6 Oct at the Madison Square Garden in New York, may be postponed following back and ankle injuries sustained by Maskaev in training, PANA has learnt. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigeria's Samuel Peter has vowed to knock out the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev of Kazakhstan to win the world title. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two Kenyan female boxers, Congestina Achieng and Fatuma Zarika, will vie for world titles when they take on opponents from Trinidad and Tobago in Nairobi on 25 August. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Lartei Lartey and Kpakpo Allotey overcame South African opponents on Sunday morning at the Globe Cinema in Accra to annex WBA titles. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkinabe boxers, Alexis Kabore and Patrice Sou Toke, will defend their African titles, respectively in the bantamweight and welterweight categories against Benin's Fatiou Fassinou and Togo's Ballogou Djol Evie, in Ouagadougou, Saturday, sporting sources said Friday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) – Nigeria's national boxin-g coach, Obisia Nwankpa, has lamented the poor showing of the country's boxers at the ongoing 9th All Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, describing it as "our worst outing in the history of the continental games''. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- All four members of the Black Bombers, Ghana's boxing team, who got to the quarter final stage at the 9th All Africa Games in Algiers, have zoomed into the final with impressive victories. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Head coach Roberto Ibanez Chavez and his assistant, Ofori Asare are worried about the attitude of their boxers ahead of the boxing segment of the Ninth All Africa Games. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Boxing crowd puller and rapper, Brimah Kamoko will light up the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi with his astute ringcraft and trademark gimmick when the Sikaprix Ash-Town Promotions stage a 13-bout show at the Prempeh Assembly Hall next Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigerian (PANA) -- The Nigeria Amateur Boxing Association (NABA) has selected 11 boxers for the African Boxing Championship scheduled for 18-28 May in Madagascar. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Youthful Albert Mensah on Saturday became the new national lightweight boxing champion when he dethroned Ben "Congo Soldier" Ankrah at the Azumah Nelson Sports Complex here. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Nigeria's boxing hopeful, Samuel Peter, Monday said he was seeking God's intervention over a conspiracy to deny him a shot at the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The boxing qualifiers of the 2007 African Games billed for Algiers, Algeria are underway here with contestants from the Confederation of African Boxing (CAB) Zone 3 vying in various categories, the Ivorian Boxing Federation announced. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- The world's kickboxing championship takes place on 21 May in Cameroon, the president of the Cameroonian kickboxing Federation, Emmanuel Essissima, announced Saturday. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- An international conspiracy to deny Nigeria's Samuel Peter a shot at the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title is afoot, sources close to the boxer's camp have alleged. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- In a bid to avoid infections in the blood- letting sport, Uganda Amateur Boxing Federation (UABF) has imposed a mandatory HIV/AIDS testing along side a dope test before commencement of any bout sanctioned by the local governing body. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Frank "the Big Shark" Frimpong on Friday night stopped Nigeria's Adewale "the Tiger" Abe in round one to grab the vacant African Boxing Union (ABU) heavyweight title. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) - – The 'Men Only' Championship Boxing Night enters the third week this weekend with eight bouts lined up to thrill boxing fans. Full text...