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Published:Saturday | April 4, 2015 | 4:10 PMLeroy Brown

Tsetsi Davis, the 2014 Wray and Nephew Contender runner-up, will have a new opponent for his fight on Wednesday night in the fourth contest this year at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium. Davis was down to fight Jermain King from Guyana...

Published:Thursday | April 2, 2015 | 5:41 PMLeroy Brown

  Gleaner Writer Jamaica's Jermaine Bowen gave his team another win in the Wray and Nephew Contender series on Wednesday night, when he scored an easy victory over Trinidad and Tobago's Duke Brooks, the Caribbean boxing team's...

Published:Tuesday | March 31, 2015 | 2:51 PMLeroy Brown

Jamaica's Jermaine Bowen, representing the Green Team, will exchange punches with the Yellow Team's representative, Duke Brooks, from Trinidad and Tobago, tonight at the Chinese Benevolent Association auditorium on Old Hope Road as the 'Wray...

Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown

Devon 'Concrete' Moncrieffe, the Wray & Nephew Middleweight 2013 Contender champion, lost to American boxer Wilky Campfort by a sixth-round technical knockout (TKO) in Florida last Thursday night...

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2015 | 1:30 PMLeroy Brown

Guyana's Derick Richmond gave the Caribbean Yellow team its first victory on Wednesday night, when he defeated Jamaica's Gregory Miller by unanimous decision, as the 'Wray and Nephew Middleweight Contender' 2015 series continued at the Chinese...

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown

Dereck Richmond from Guyana is the firm favourite to win tonight in his clash with Jamaica's Gregory Miller over six rounds, as the Wray and Nephew Middleweight Contender 2015 contest moves into the second week of competition at the Chinese...

Published:Thursday | March 19, 2015 | 3:52 PMLeroy Brown

Kemahl Russell, one of the Jamaican boxers vying for the Wray...

Published:Tuesday | March 17, 2015 | 6:30 PMLeroy Brown

The wait for the start of the popular Wray...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 5:11 PMLeroy Brown

When one enters Jamaica's National Stadium, which is located at Independence Park, there is a prominent sign that says McDonald Tunnel. The tunnel is one of the entrances to the grandstand and the infield. Recently, in a brief unscientific poll at...

Published:Saturday | February 28, 2015 | 5:02 PMLeroy Brown

Keen competition is expected today at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre, Piccadilly Avenue, when the Hy-Lite Best of the Best High School Tennis Tournament which started on Wednesday ends today. Play starts at 9:00 this morning and the closing ceremony...

Published:Saturday | February 28, 2015 | 6:48 PMLeroy Brown

An appeal by Jamaica's Sakima Mullings against his defeat at the hands of Guyana's Clive Atwell in their World Boxing Council/CABOFE Junior welterweight title fight on February 21, in Georgetown, Guyana, has been thrown out by a special committee...

Published:Thursday | February 26, 2015 | 8:36 PMLeroy Brown

The Hi-Lyte Best of the Best tennis tournament, which is designed to encourage high-school tennis, will serve off this morning at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre at 9 o'clock. The tournament, which is a team event for boys and girls, is being run by the...

Published:Saturday | February 21, 2015 | 7:21 PMLeroy Brown

Jamaica's Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters, who became the World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight champion on December 8, 2012 by defeating Daulis Prescott at Jamaica's National Indoor Sports Centre, has now been officially named a Super Champion...

Published:Friday | February 20, 2015 | 1:29 PMLeroy Brown

Jamaica's Sakima Mullings will start favourite to win another title tonight, when he goes against Guyana's Clive Atwell, for the World Boxing Council/Caribbean Boxing Federation (WBC/CABOFE) junior welterweight title in Guyana. The fight is the main...

Published:Monday | February 16, 2015 | 4:39 PMLeroy Brown

Sakima Mullings, the World Boxing Council Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) welterweight title holder, leaves Jamaica on Thursday for Guyana to fight Guyanese Clive Atwell for the vacant (CABOFE) junior welterweight title on Saturday, at the...

Published:Monday | February 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown

Plans for Nicholas "The Axeman" Walters to defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight super title on March 21 at Madison Square Garden, New York, have been shelved temporarily, his manager Jacques Deschamps.....

Published:Saturday | January 31, 2015 | 5:08 PMLeroy Brown

Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters, who returned to his training base in Panama last Wednesday, could have his next fight at the Mecca of boxi

Published:Thursday | January 22, 2015 | 3:24 PMLeroy Brown

The use of instant replay technology in professional boxing is now a reality and is being used on a regular basis by the World Boxing Cou

Published:Tuesday | January 20, 2015 | 5:35 PMLeroy Brown

"Shocked, then thrilled."

Published:Monday | December 22, 2014 | 1:23 PMLeroy Brown

It has been five years since talk of a superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao started, but for one reason or another, it

Published:Sunday | December 21, 2014 | 4:42 PMLeroy Brown

Experience trumped youth at the Liguanea Club, New Kingston last Saturday night, as Damion Johnson and Sasha Pagon

Published:Saturday | December 20, 2014 | 5:08 PMLeroy Brown

As Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters, the World Boxing Association super featherweight champion continues to climb to the top in boxing's fir

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2014 | 3:52 PMLeroy Brown

A good all-round performance from their seven- man team gave the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) the edge in the Jamaica Boxing Board-sponsor

Published:Tuesday | November 18, 2014 | 3:51 PMLeroy Brown

Boxers from the recently formed St Thomas Boxing Club, led by coach Robert Napier, held their own last Saturday night against stiff compe

Published:Monday | November 10, 2014 | 5:57 PMLeroy Brown

Former World Boxing Council Super Bantamweight Champion Alicia 'Slick' Ashley scored a brilliant seventh-round technical knockout victory

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