Big appetites need big whetting. So what better way to stoke the idea of matching boxers against mixed martial arts practitioners than by pitting the ring's consensus heavyweight champion against the most recent man to defend a claim as the most ...

MELBOURNE, Dec 26 (Reuters) - After a four-wicket haul in front of a record Melbourne Cricket Ground and Australia's top score on a tough pitch, little wonder Michael Neser found day one of his maiden Boxing Day test a dream come true. The recalled seamer ...

For Manny Pacquiao, Saturday night's mega-event, 'The Dream Match' against Oscar De La Hoya in Las Vegas, means much more to him than any other fight. For the fiercely patriotic Pacquiao, known as the 'National Fist' in his native Philippines, this is a ...

Abdul Khan told BBC Sport his cousin Amir's world-title success inspired him and a generation of South Asian boxers to pursue careers in the ring.

Something about the way he ran up those stairs changed his life. It’s difficult for Anye Robinson to put a finger on why it happened the way it did, outside of the obvious. That neither the swimming session he was going there to take nor the football ...

Maddison Van Der Mark, U.S. Army Veteran and student at Rutgers University, poses for a photograph inside a boxing ring at New Jersey Give a Kid a Dream at Gleason's Gym Jersey Shore in Long Branch on Monday, May 8, 2023. New Jersey Give a Kid a Dream is a ...

(Reuters) - Nineteen-year-old Lydia Nantale makes her way home from work through the squalor of the Katanga Slum in central Kampala, Uganda's capital. But there's only time for a quick change of clothes as her coach is waiting. Nantale is headed for the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — A punch crunches into the side of Daniella Muleketsi’s face. She grimaces at the sting of it and the crowd holds its breath in fear for their homegrown boxing hope. It is the 20-year-old Muleketsi’s first professional fight and it ...