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From featherweight to heavyweight and from all around the world, South China Morning Post brings you the latest news from the world of boxing, as well as boxing-related stories and features.
Louis Cheung Kai-chung in a still from Golden Boy.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Golden Boy: Louis Cheung anchors hot-blooded yet generic boxing drama

Cheung’s eye-catching central performance is the highlight of Joe Chan’s mildly entertaining drama co-starring Leander Lau and Eric Tsang.

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Trending in China

China boxer survives Australia attack, divorces wife over failure to protect her

World Boxing Council

Pradhan ready for encounter on bigger stage, but wants fight at Kai Tak next

Manny Pacquiao

Former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton dies aged 46

Body of British boxer reportedly found at his home in Manchester on Sunday morning.

Ricky Hatton’s best performance came in his IBF World Light-Welterweight Title fight against Kostya Tszyu. Photo: Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Meet Christy Martin, the boxer who inspired Sydney Sweeney’s new film

Martin was a pioneering female boxer in the 1990s, but her personal life was complicated – Sydney Sweeney will bring her story to life in the biopic Christy.

Olympics

‘It belongs to you’: S Korean boxer ‘returns’ 1988 Olympic gold medal to Jones Jnr

Park Si-hun travels to Jones’ ranch in Pensacola, Florida, to give him medal from fight most observers believe the American won.

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IOC

Chinese Taipei Olympic boxer Lin will not fight at world championships: official

The Paris Games gold medallist had reportedly agreed to gender testing for world event and submitted results, but has received no response.

Olympic champion boxer Lin Yu-ting had agreed to undergo compulsory gender testing ahead of the world championships starting in Liverpool this week, her coach said. Photo: AFP
Hiromasa Urakawa

Japanese boxing at ‘crucial point’, deaths could spell end: commission chief

Recent deaths of two boxers on same card have shaken sport to the core in Japan, as investigations continue.

Japan

Japanese fighter still in coma as nation grapples with spate of boxing accidents

Amateur boxer still unresponsive in intensive care after a bout on August 8, weeks after two professionals died from their injuries.

Women and gender

Chinese Taipei boxer Lin Yu-ting agrees to gender test for world championships

Lin’s coach says Olympic champion, who was embroiled in a gender row at 2024 Paris Games, will ‘go by the rules’ of the World Boxing event.

Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting won the women’s 57kg boxing final against Poland’s Julia Szeremeta at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Photo: AFP
US immigration

Mexican boxer Chavez Jnr deported from US over alleged cartel ties

The fighter, linked to the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in July after losing a match to US influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

Mexico’s Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr arrives for a cruiserweight boxing match against US influencer Jake Paul at the Honda Centre in Anaheim, California, on June 28. Photo: AFP

Boxing officials in Japan to hold emergency meeting after deaths of 2 fighters

Japan Boxing Commission, gym owners, officials under pressure to act after Shigetoshi Kotari, Hiromasa Urakawa die following brain surgery.

World Boxing Council

2 Japanese boxers on same card die from brain injuries

Shigetoshi Kotari died on Friday, Hiromasa Urakawa on Saturday after being injured in fights in Tokyo on August 2.

Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao only the latest boxing great to risk his legacy for lure of the ring

The 46-year-old Filipino came out of retirement on Saturday to fight Mario Barrios but fell short as the American escaped with a draw.

Mario Barrios (left) lands a jab on Manny Pacquiao in the 10th round of their WBC welterweight title fight at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday. Photo: AFP
Tyson Fury

Fury calls for third Usyk title fight, but Warren says Parker is next in line

Tyson Fury takes to social media day after Oleksandr Usyk’s brutal fifth-round stoppage of Daniel Dubois.

Tyson Fury (right) and Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk fight to be crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Photo: DPA
Manny Pacquiao

Barrios holds off battling Pacquiao to retain WBC welterweight crown

Mario Barrios pushed all the way in Las Vegas, manages to salvage majority draw in fight against Filipino icon.

Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao set to spring surprise as he targets Barrios’ belt in comeback fight

The 46-year-old Filipino says he feels rejuvenated after four years away from the ring but is underdog against Mexican-American champion.

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Manny Pacquiao

After Pacquiao and Hatton, now Rex Tso joins veterans returning to pro boxing

‘If boxers who are seven, eight years older can return, why can’t I?’ Hong Kong’s Tso says as he resumes quest to win a world title.

Rex Tso with two of the belts he held during his previous stint as a pro. Photo: Handout
United States

Mexican ex-world champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr arrested by ICE

The fighter, who is alleged to have ties to the Sinaloa cartel, was detained just days after his lopsided loss to influencer Jake Paul.

The Philippines

Pacquiao honoured by hall of fame, Philippine fighter says ‘best is yet to come’

Manny Pacquiao has been enshrined in boxing’s hall of fame, but he’s getting back in the ring next month for shot at WBC champion Mario Barrios.

Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao going all in on boxing return, says he’s done with Philippine politics

Former eight-division world champion returns to ring next month, but says Mario Barrios title fight not a one-shot deal.

Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring on July 19 for a WBC welterweight title fight against Mario Barrios. Photo: AFP
Gender

Olympic champ Khelif must undergo genetic sex screening under new boxing body

World Boxing specifically mentions Algerian gold medallist when it announces the new rule for all boxers taking part in its upcoming events.

Algeria’s Imane Khelif beat China’s Yang Liu to win gold in the women’s 66kg final at the 2024 Olympics. Photo: AP
Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao to end retirement and fight Barrios for welterweight title in Las Vegas

Filipino boxing icon to return to ring after four years at age 46, according to ESPN report.

Fame and celebrity

Meet boxing legend Floyd Mayweather’s model girlfriend, Gallienne Nabila

The pair were first linked in 2019 but have since had an on-again, off-again relationship; starting around 2022 they have appeared together at numerous events, including NBA games.

Heavyweight boxing great George Foreman dead at 76, family says in Instagram post

Former heavyweight champion fought and lost against Muhammad Ali in boxing’s iconic 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle”.

George Foreman, who fought an iconic battle with Muhammad Ali before later reclaiming the title two decades later, has died. Photo: AFP
Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games

IOC recommends boxing be part of LA 2028 Games, Olympics chief Bach says

Move ends years-long saga over sport’s future, with new World Boxing body granted provisional recognition.

Olympic chiefs have recommended that boxing be included in the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Photo: Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Meet Jake Paul’s Dutch Olympian speed-skater girlfriend, Jutta Leerdam

When Jake Paul first contacted Jutta Leerdam via Instagram she wasn’t impressed, saying he looked like an ‘arrogant d******** that thinks he can just get whatever he wants’ – now they’re in love.

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Thailand

Thailand’s first Olympic gold medallist jailed for sexual assault of minor

Somluck Kamsing won featherweight title at Atlanta Games in 1996, but is now better known as actor on Thai television.

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