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From featherweight to heavyweight and from all around the world, South China Morning Post brings you the latest news from the world of boxing, as well as boxing-related stories and features.
Lin Yi-ting in a still from A Dance with Rainbows (category IIA, Mandarin and Minnan), directed by Lee Yi-shan. Tsai Chen-nan and Yu An-shun co-star.
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Review | A Dance with Rainbows: Taiwanese coming-of-age boxing drama packs a punch

Director Lee Yi-shan delivers a quietly powerful Taiwanese sports drama in A Dance with Rainbows, starring Lin Yi-ting.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Marissa Ayers, who’s dating New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart

Celebrity children

Meet Venezuela, Tyson Fury’s daughter who just got married at 16

Hong Kong sports

Hong Kong boxer’s world title quest, wants Chris Eubank Jnr, Conor Benn fights

Rishi Gurung is the first boxer from the city to obtain a professional licence from the British Boxing Board of Control.

Rishi Gurung pins Fonz Alexander to the ropes during his second professional fight. Photo: Handout
Wellness

She was a 102kg diabetic with a ‘death wish’. After losing 40kg, she’s thriving

Keya Wingfield comfort-ate to morbid obesity after her baby son died. An epiphany led to her losing 40kg and reversing type 2 diabetes.

IOC

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.

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Korean drama reviews

Bloodhounds season 2: K-pop star Rain joins boxing drama as the menacing villain

Rain shines as a fearsome boxer who runs a bare-knuckle fight club in the second season of the Netflix boxing drama Bloodhounds.

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K-pop star Rain in a still from Bloodhounds season 2. Photo: Soyun Jeon, Seowoo Jung/Netflix
Manny Pacquiao

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

American stunned boxing world this week when he said their long-awaited rematch was for show only, but Filipino says ‘it is a real fight’.

Floyd Mayweather

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

Boxer also says the September 19 bout may not be at the Sphere in Las Vegas: ‘we don’t know exactly where the fight is going to be at’.

World Boxing Organization

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
Manny Pacquiao

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.

Floyd Mayweather (left) hits Manny Pacquiao during their 2015 welterweight title fight in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Manny Pacquiao

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.

Anthony Joshua

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’.

Wellness

Singaporean pro boxer uses skills from the ring to dominate life’s other fights

Efasha Kamarudin credits boxing for helping her build self-confidence, tackle body-size hang-ups and bounce back from new motherhood blues.

Efasha Kamarudin, known professionally as The Face, poses inside the ring at the Spartans Boxing Club in Singapore, where she trains. Photo: Instagram/fash_theface
Tyson Fury

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.

Tyson Fury retired last year after a second points loss to heavyweight rival Oleksandr Usyk. Photo: Reuters
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.

Anthony Joshua

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.

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Anthony Joshua

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.

Britain’s Anthony Joshua has been injured in a fatal car crash in Nigeria. Photo: AFP
Floyd Mayweather

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.

Jake Paul

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

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

Obituaries

In memoriam: 29 beloved celebrities we lost in 2025

We remember stars from the worlds of Hollywood, TV, music, fashion and more, from Jane Goodall to Giorgio Armani and Hulk Hogan.

Ozzy Osbourne, Diane Keaton, and Robert Redford are just three of the celebrities we lost this year. Photos: EPA, TNS, AFP
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
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Golden Boy: Louis Cheung anchors hot-blooded yet generic boxing drama

Cheung’s eye-catching central performance is the highlight of Joe Chan’s mildly entertaining drama co-starring Leander Lau and Eric Tsang.

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Trending in China

China boxer survives Australia attack, divorces wife over failure to protect her

Champion athlete who was stabbed in head during violent assault on bus tried to fight back but wife stopped him fearing for his career.

World Boxing Council

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.

Saagar Pradhan poses for pictures during an interview at Verano Boxing Club. Photo: Elson Li
Manny Pacquiao

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
Fame and celebrity

Meet Christy Martin, the boxer who inspired Sydney Sweeney’s new film

Martin was a pioneering female boxer in the 1990s, but her personal life was complicated – Sydney Sweeney will bring her story to life in the biopic Christy.

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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