Boxing

ASTANA, (Reuters) – Amateur boxing organisation AIBA  is to set up a professional programme to enhance its standing  within the sport, AIBA President Wu Ching-Kuo said yesterday.

LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Britain’s Amir Khan knocked  out Zab Judah in the fifth round to add the IBF junior  welterweight title to his WBA super lightweight crown in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s former two-weight world  champion Ricky Hatton called time on his 14-year professional  boxing career yesterday.

Guyanese fighters Stephan Gouveia and Bert Braithwaite lost their quarterfinal matches yesterday in the American Boxing Confederation’s (ABC) third and final qualifiers in Panama City, Panama.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Multiple flyweight world champion Ria Ramnarine will now face Russian Anastasia Toktaulova, after the original challenger Mayerli Altamar of Colombia pulled out.

By Treiston Joseph Hot out of the fire of the RAMPAGE fight card last month, Mark Austin and Revlon Lake will headline the regular Fight Night card for the lightweight title of Guyana come June 24 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) commencing from 20:00hrs.

By Treiston Joseph Mitchell Rogers and Kurt Bess will clash for the heavyweight title of Guyana on May 28 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall after the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) arranged their contract signing yesterday at the Abdool and Abdool Insurance building on High Street.

HAMBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – British WBA heavyweight  champion David Haye called rival Vladimir Klitschko “a fraud” yesterday as the duo began verbal sparring ahead of their  unification fight in Hamburg on July 2.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former British and European  heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper, one of his country’s  most popular sportsmen, has died at the age of 76, the British  Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) said on Sunday.

(BBC) Floyd Mayweather’s hearing on domestic violence charges, for which he could be jailed for 34 years if found guilty, was postponed a third time on Thursday.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia,  CMC – A St. Lucian contingent of six boxers and three officials left the island for Ecuador on Thursday.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will host a ‘Road to London’ programme on May 2 at the National Park playfield to facilitate preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in London, England.

For any boxer to get to new cruiserweight champion, Kurt Bess, he must first survive the wrath of his right hand.

Guyana Amateur Boxing Association’s ‘Road to London Olympics 2012’ programme got underway yesterday at the National Gymnasium with Director of Sport Neil Kumar urging participants to make the best of their opportunities.

he Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will conduct its first level one coaching course at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue from tomorrow starting at 10:00hrs.The

(Fightnews) No one wanted to see Vivian Harris get brutally knocked out.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has identified 16 boxers to prepare for possible selection on the Guyana team for the 2012 Olympic Games which will take place in London, United Kingdom from July 27 to August 12.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Gil Clancy, a Hall of Fame trainer and manager who worked with many top fighters including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, died on Thursday at age 88.

A systematic attack to the body and head snapping uppercuts by the new light heavyweight champion Kwesi ‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Jones resulted in a fifth round TKO over Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes on Friday Night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

COLOGNE, Germany, (Reuters) – Vitaly Klitschko  easily retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday with a  first-round knockout of Cuban challenger Odlanier Solis.