Sep 2011 23
Khalid Yafai says he has a more varied training routine now than when he prepared for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Progress towards 2012 In training everything is spot on and is going well. The last time I was in as good a condition was before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. So I'm happy where I am. Performance-wise I had a bit of a bad showing in the Europeans in June. But I have just come back from a tournament in Hungary and I won gold there and I boxed very well. I also Read more
Sep 2011 23
James DeGale listens in as Frank Warren addresses the media. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Frank Warren would like to see a rematch between George Groves and James DeGale as a flagship bout on a new boxing channel. The promoter Warren was flanked by his top fighters at Thursday's launch of BoxNation at the O2. The British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion Groves recently joined Warren's camp from the Hayemaker promotional stable, signing a three-year deal in the hope of Read more
Sep 2011 23
America's Roy Jones, right, lost his final middleweight bout against Korea's Park Si-hun in 1988 despite landing more than twice as many punches. The judges who voted for Park were suspended. Photograph: Ron Kuntz/AP The governing body that oversees world boxing has promised to launch an immediate investigation into allegations that its subsidiary accepted millions of dollars in return for a promise of guaranteed gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics. The BBC claimed that whistleblowers said the Read more
Sep 2011 23
Carl Froch, left, in action against Glen Johnson, will have to wait for his scheduled Super Six meeting with Andre Ward. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images Carl Froch's Super Six series fight against Andre Ward has been postponed after his American opponent suffered a cut in training that required stitches. Froch had been due to take on Ward on 29 October in Atlantic City in what would have been a world super-middleweight unification bout. However, the contest will now be put back after Read more
Sep 2011 23
Britain's sports minister, Hugh Robertson, says the allegations show sport is in need of improved governance. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP The BBC has promised to hand over its evidence to any International Olympic Committee investigation into allegations that amateur boxing's global governing body promised to deliver two gold medals to Azerbaijan at the London Olympics next year in return for millions of dollars. The IOC has said that its ethics committee will consider the evidence before deciding whether Read more
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