Boxing

Floyd Mayweather remains the WBA and WBC welterweight boxing champion after a unanimous points victory over Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas. It extends five-weight world champion Mayweather’s unbeaten run to 47 fights. In just the second rematch of his 18-year career, the 37-year-old American emerged as a comfortable winner on ...

Amir Khan’s lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic are racing to get his American visa reinstated in time for him to be ringside in Las Vegas for Floyd Mayweather’s latest big-money extravaganza on Saturday night. Khan was turned back at Manchester airport on Thursday as he tried to check-in ...

Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) says he plans on making history on Saturday night in his rematch against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana was well dressed today with a suit that looked something out of an old ...

Muhammad Waseem a young and rising boxing star who won the silver medal in Commonwealth boxing finals for Pakistan, expresses his fears for political backlash from the current govt citing his political beliefs. I personally believe that no Pakistani athlete should ever have to experience such fears as Sportsmen are ...

Five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather claims his fight with Amir Khan can still happen and dismissed claims that Manny Pacquiao would provide the British boxer with a sterner test The proposed fight between Khan and Mayweather is yet to materialise, despite it being touted consistently by both camps, and the ...

Kell Brook: New IBF welterweight champion calls out Amir Khan for Wembley super-fight after triumph over Shawn Porter Kell Brook won a world title at the first time of asking on Saturday and is now homing in on a domestic grudge match with Amir Khan. The Sheffield man took on ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Syed Mohammad Asif bagged a silver medal in the 52kg flyweight event at the fourth Taipei City International Boxing Tournament on Sunday. The Quetta-based youngster lost his final bout to Japan’s Nikito Nakano 2-1 at the Taipei Gymnasium. “Losing hurts,” Asif told The Express Tribune after the match. ...

LAHORE: The Pakis­tan Boxing Federation (PBF) announced on Monday its nine-member squad for the 17th Asian Games being held from Sept 19 in Incheon, South Korea “The party [for the Asian Games] comprises six boxers and three officials,” said PBF secretary Iqbal Hussain while talking to APP from London. He ...