It was a night of education in fitness, commitment and self-control at the Nicholson Stadium at Burma Camp as the Ghana Navy team was adjudged the overall champions in the 2018 Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) Inter-services boxing competition. The Navy secured a total of 21 points from seven victories in 14 bouts to emerge winners. … Read more
Opponents to embattled amateur boxing chief Wu Ching-Kuo have begun legal proceedings in an attempt to seize control of ruling body the AIBA, executive committee member Pat Fiacco told AFP on Tuesday. “We’ve contacted a court in Lausanne so that the running of the AIBA be handed over to the interim executive committee,” the Canadian … Read more
Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide, says the reason why the government chose not to fund the national amateur boxing team is because they weren’t convinced it would be used for practical purposes. According to reports, the ministry allocated $32,000 to the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) regulator of the Ghana Amateur … Read more
The second vice-president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), Abraham Kotey Neequaye, says getting a befitting edifice as an office for the GBA is the priority of the authority and plans are far advanced to acquire one. He disclosed also that the current GBA elected executives would ensure that super-bantamweight fighter Isaac Dogbe and lightweight … Read more
India’s women boxers have got their first foreign coach in the form of Frenchman Stephane Cottalorda, who has been appointed to whip the team into shape ahead of the 2018 Asian Games. Cottalorda, 41, who coached France’s youth and junior national women’s boxers, will be joining the Indian pugilists in the first week of June. … Read more
24 members of the national amateur boxing team, Black Bombers are continuing their non-residential camping and preparations for the 2017 Africa Boxing championship with daily training at the Accra Sports Stadium. 20 men and 4 women boxers have been training for about three weeks now ahead of the competition which is scheduled for Brazaville, Congo … Read more
The forum, according to the federation’s president, Gideon Quartey, will seek to address some of the challenges in the development and promotion of the sport as well as technical and officiating challenges. It is opened to recognised boxing coaches from every part of the country as well as referees and judges. According to Mr. Quartey, … Read more
Former Sports Minister Dr Rashid Pelpuo has bemoaned the lack of attention given to boxing in the country. The former amateur boxer and the lawmaker, speaking to Class Sports, noted that boxing had the tendency to win Ghana more laurels at the international level and, therefore, called on authorities pay attention to the sport. “Boxing … Read more
The Ghana Amateur Boxing Federation (GABF) has organized an Individuals Championship at the Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium to pick new talents for the national boxing team, The Black Bombers. The three-day competition attracted amateur boxers from all over the country including the security services. The President of the GABF Gideon Quartey … Read more
Ghana is known to be a leading boxing nation in Africa, but for some time now the nation has lacked the boxers with the technical and tactical discipline to serve in the amateur ranks and win laurels. As the Ghana Amateur Boxing Federation (GABF) prepares for the future, especially the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020, … Read more
This year’s annual Ga Homowo Festival Boxing tournament comes off at the Gbese Mantse Palace, opposite Ussher Fort in the heart of Accra on Saturday and Sunday. Amateur boxers registered with the Greater Accra Amateur Boxing Association (GAABA) will engage each other in battling encounters from bantamweight right up to heavyweight as 14 exciting fight … Read more