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China is king of the ring

Sports | Boxing
2008-8-25

CHINA won two boxing gold medals on a historic day not only for the host but also for Mongolia. Zou Shiming won China's first-ever Olympic boxing title at light-flyweight before Badar-Uugan Enkhbat repeated the...

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Boxers storm into finals

Sports | Boxing
2008-8-23

CHINESE boxing broke new ground yesterday as three fighters reached Olympic finals in the country's best ever performance. Zhang Zilei paraded into the ring and was awarded his super heavyweight semifinal unopposed...

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Zou thrills crowd with show of force

Sports | Boxing
2008-8-14

ZOU Shiming began his quest for China's first boxing gold medal in style yesterday with an 11-2 victory over Eduard Bermudez of Venezuela in the light flyweight division as the Olympics' biggest and smallest boxers...

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Boxer leaves on a stretcher

Sports | Boxing
2008-8-10

A SAMOAN boxer was removed from the Olympic ring on a stretcher after getting knocked out in the third round of his first bout yesterday. Farani Tavui was hit with a series of hard punches by Marijo Sivolija-Jelica...

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Margarito stops Cotto for welterweight crown

Sports | Boxing
2008-7-28

MEXICO'S Antonio Margarito stopped Miguel Cotto in the 11th round to win the WBA welterweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday. Margarito (36-5, 27 KOs) knocked Cotto to his knees with a flurry of hard punches midway...

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Klitschko KOs Thompson

Sports | Boxing
2008-7-14

WLADIMIR Klitschko retained his IBF and WBO heavyweight titles on Saturday with an 11th round knockout against American challenger Tony Thompson in Hamburg, Germany. Klitschko recovered from an unexpectedly shaky...

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Hamburg to root for local boy Klitschko

Sports | Boxing
2008-7-12

THE last time Wladimir Klitschko was in the ring with Tony Thompson, he was about to receive an emphatic defeat. Thompson, who will fight Klitschko for his IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles in Hamburg today,...

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Floyd Jr accuses HBO of race bias

Sports | Boxing
2008-7-7

RECENTLY retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. accused the US pay-TV channel Home Box Office of bias against him and other black fighters. Mayweather, a 31-year-old former Olympic bronze medalist from Grand Rapids,...

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Pacquiao makes history with KO

Sports | Boxing
2008-6-30

MANNY Pacquiao became the first Asian boxer to capture world titles at four different weight divisions when he knocked out David Diaz in the ninth round to claim the WBC lightweight championship in Las Vegas on Saturday. ...

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Chagaev hurt

Sports | Boxing
2008-6-29

WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev tore his Achilles' tendon while sparring this week, forcing the cancellation of his title rematch against Nikolai Valuev in Germany on July 5. Chagaev tore his tendon during...

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Khan survives knockdown to clobber Gomez

Sports | Boxing
2008-6-23

AMIR Khan got up from a second-round knockdown and stopped Michael Gomez in the fifth in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, successfully defending his Commonwealth lightweight title for a fourth time. Khan knocked...

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Mayweather hangs his gloves again

Sports | Boxing
2008-6-8

FLOYD Mayweather Jr., widely regarded as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound, announced his retirement from the sport on Friday for the second time in 13 months. In May last year, Mayweather said he would...

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Champion Holyfield is broke

Sports | Boxing
2008-6-7

MAYBE now we know why former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield wants to keep fighting at age 45. The "Real Deal" appears real broke. His US$10 million estate in suburban Atlanta is under foreclosure, the...

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Mijares beats Munoz in close decision

Sports | Boxing
2008-5-19

WORLD Boxing Council (WBC) champion Cristian Mijares of Mexico won a split decision over World Boxing Association (WBA) title holder Alexander Munoz in Durango, Mexico, in the first super flyweight unification bout...

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De La Hoya ready for Mayweather Jr

Sports | Boxing
2008-5-5

OSCAR De La Hoya confidently turned his thoughts towards his rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr later this year after comfortably beating fellow American Steve Forbes in a non-title bout at Carson, California, on Saturday. ...