News Source: The independent
| 18 days ago
Former sports minister Richard Caborn says he will fight to save the future of a sport in turmoil after a boardroom coup forced the removal of Derek Mapp as chairman of the British Amateur Boxing Association last week. Caborn had threatened to resign
News Source: The independent
| 1 month ago
Another who saw a way of hurrying Floyd Mayweather Jnr to a first defeat is back in the shadows reconsidering his position. Is this further evidence of the magnificence of a fighter for the ages, or a notch on a career record that owes more than it
News Source: Fox
| 3 months ago
Published March 21, 2013 Reuters When Ireland's Katie Taylor was taking hits and striking blows for boxing's Olympic debut in an east London ring last year, John Hardy did not want to look. To this leading neuroscientist and molecular biologist, a
News Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 3 months ago
Boxing gloves are seen during a training session of heavyweight title holder boxer Vladimir Klitschko of Ukraine in Duesseldorf March 17, 2010. When Ireland's Katie Taylor was taking hits and striking blows for boxing's Olympic debut in an east
News Source: The independent
| 4 months ago
The Ulster Hall in Belfast would tremble as a divided city left the Troubles at the door and unified for one night only behind the phenomenon from Clones. Thirty years on Belfast is again rocking to a boxer's beat and McGuigan is conducting the
News Source: The independent
| 4 months ago
Carl Frampton, who became the European super-bantamweight champion in Belfast on Saturday night when he stopped Spain's Kiko Martinez in the ninth round, is set for a final eliminator for the IBF world title on 11 May. "I want to be a world champion;
News Source: The Independent
| 4 months ago
Northern Ireland had just beaten the host nation, Spain, in the 1982 World Cup finals. Present in his dual role as sports editor and chief football writer for the Belfast Telegraph, Malcolm Brodie penned a stirring eulogy to Pat Jennings, Gerry
News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
How sad that in the year 2013 a young sportsman should feel so acutely the sensitivities of faith and citizenship. Yet this is the desperate territory Rory McIlroy is asked to negotiate, a Catholic boy from Belfast, who played his amateur golf for