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Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting after her win over Ayaka Taguchi of Japan at the ⁠Asian Boxing Elite ⁠Championships last Friday. Photo: Instagram/officialasianboxing
Boxing

Chinese Taipei boxer Lin gets bronze at Asian championships in competitive return

The 30-year-old Olympic champion involved in gender controversy loses semi-final in Mongolia after stepping up to 60kg division.

Boxing

Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao says Floyd Mayweather fight ‘not an exhibition’

Boxing

Mayweather says rematch with Pacquiao an exhibition, with venue still undecided

Boxing

Lin Yu-ting to compete in first international boxing event since gender row

The decision means the 30-year-old can participate in the Asian Boxing Championships in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar starting March 28.

Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to compete in the female category at World Boxing events. Photo: AP
Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to compete in the female category at World Boxing events. Photo: AP
Boxing

Mayweather to fight Pacquiao in long-awaited Las Vegas rematch in September

Bout announced days after Floyd Mayweather comes out of retirement and will be rematch of blockbuster 2015 clash.

Boxing

Pacquiao returns to Las Vegas for 10-round exhibition fight against Provodnikov

Manny Pacquiao looking forward to ‘great fight’ against former world champion Ruslan Provodnikov on April 18.

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Boxing

Anthony Joshua returns to gym following car crash that killed two of his friends

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said: ‘I do think he will want to return to boxing, but that will be his decision when the time is right’.

The former world heavyweight champion was injured in a car crash in Nigeria on December 29. Photo: dpa
The former world heavyweight champion was injured in a car crash in Nigeria on December 29. Photo: dpa
United States

‘Only way I’ll ever get licked’: boxing’s Muhammad Ali honoured with US stamp

‘The Greatest’ receives a historic tribute, as 22 million stamps featuring a 1974 photo fulfil his famed ‘only way I’ll ever get licked’ joke.

Boxing

Fury’s back and getting ready to ‘punch men in the face and get paid for it’

Tyson Fury getting back in the ring a year after announcing that he was quitting boxing.

Anthony Joshua

Driver in fatal Anthony Joshua car crash charged with dangerous driving

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was driving the British boxer and 2 of his friends when their car crashed on Monday, killing Joshua’s friends.

People walk past the scene of a crash involving British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. Photo: Federal Road Safety Corps via AP
Boxing

Ex-boxing champ Joshua discharged from hospital after surviving fatal car crash

Anthony Joshua is ‘clinically fit’ to be allowed to go home following death of two close friends in Nigeria.

Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital. Photo: dpa
Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital. Photo: dpa
Boxing

Ex-heavyweight champion Joshua ‘stable’ after Nigeria crash kills 2 friends

Two close friends of the British boxer die after the car they are in collides with a truck on country’s notorious Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Boxing

Biggest fight in Japanese boxing history: ‘Monster’ Inoue has plan for Nakatani

Two of world’s best pound-for pound boxers must first clear Mexican opposition before Nakatani can have shot at Inoue’s title.

Boxing

Anthony Joshua knocks out Jake Paul to win controversial Netflix boxing bout

Former world heavyweight champion makes hard work of beating YouTuber in Miami.

Jake Paul (left) does his best to avoid a swinging right hand from Anthony Joshua during their bout at the Kaseya Centre in Miami. Photo: Reuters
Jake Paul

Paul v Joshua mismatch latest illustration of seismic shift in boxing landscape

YouTuber fancies his chances in Netflix-streamed bout against ex-heavyweight champion, who ominously says boxers have ‘licence to kill’.

Jake Paul (left) and Anthony Joshua clown around during their press conference in Miami on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Jake Paul (left) and Anthony Joshua clown around during their press conference in Miami on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Manny Pacquiao

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao hints at possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather

Filipino former world champion says he is involved in ‘a lot of ongoing negotiations’ and a bout against the unbeaten American is one of them.

Boxing

Pradhan ready for encounter on bigger stage, but wants fight at Kai Tak next

Saagar Pradhan will defend WBO Youth APAC super welterweight title at Southorn Stadium in October.

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Boxing

Former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton dies aged 46

Body of British boxer reportedly found at his home in Manchester on Sunday morning.

Ricky Hatton’s best performance came in his IBF World Light-Welterweight Title fight against Kostya Tszyu. Photo: Reuters
Ricky Hatton’s best performance came in his IBF World Light-Welterweight Title fight against Kostya Tszyu. Photo: Reuters
Olympics

‘It belongs to you’: S Korean boxer ‘returns’ 1988 Olympic gold medal to Jones Jnr

Park Si-hun travels to Jones’ ranch in Pensacola, Florida, to give him medal from fight most observers believe the American won.

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Boxing

Chinese Taipei Olympic boxer Lin will not fight at world championships: official

The Paris Games gold medallist had reportedly agreed to gender testing for world event and submitted results, but has received no response.

Boxing

Japanese boxing at ‘crucial point’, deaths could spell end: commission chief

Recent deaths of two boxers on same card have shaken sport to the core in Japan, as investigations continue.

The recent deaths of two boxers on the same card in Japan has shaken the sport to its very core in the country. Photo: Handout
Boxing

Japanese fighter still in coma as nation grapples with spate of boxing accidents

Amateur boxer still unresponsive in intensive care after a bout on August 8, weeks after two professionals died from their injuries.

Japanese boxing officials have held emergency meetings and are introducing safety measures such as urine tests for measuring dehydration and stricter rules on boxers’ rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Japanese boxing officials have held emergency meetings and are introducing safety measures such as urine tests for measuring dehydration and stricter rules on boxers’ rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Boxing

Chinese Taipei boxer Lin Yu-ting agrees to gender test for world championships

Lin’s coach says Olympic champion, who was embroiled in a gender row at 2024 Paris Games, will ‘go by the rules’ of the World Boxing event.

US immigration

Mexican boxer Chavez Jnr deported from US over alleged cartel ties

The fighter, linked to the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in July after losing a match to US influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

Boxing

Boxing officials in Japan to hold emergency meeting after deaths of 2 fighters

Japan Boxing Commission, gym owners, officials under pressure to act after Shigetoshi Kotari, Hiromasa Urakawa die following brain surgery.

Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa fought on the same card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on August 2 died days later after brain surgery. Photo: Shutterstock
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