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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.
Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting after her win over Ayaka Taguchi of Japan at the ⁠Asian Boxing Elite ⁠Championships last Friday. Photo: Instagram/officialasianboxing
IOC

Chinese Taipei boxer Lin gets bronze at Asian championships in competitive return

The 30-year-old Olympic champion involved in gender controversy loses semi-final in Mongolia after stepping up to 60kg division.

Korean drama reviews

Bloodhounds season 2: K-pop star Rain joins boxing drama as the menacing villain

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Manny Pacquiao

Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao says Floyd Mayweather fight ‘not an exhibition’

Floyd Mayweather

Mayweather says rematch with Pacquiao an exhibition, with venue still undecided

Boxer also says the September 19 bout may not be at the Sphere in Las Vegas: ‘we don’t know exactly where the fight is going to be at’.

Floyd Mayweather Jnr (left) beat Manny Pacquiao in their welterweight boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in 2015 that promoters said was the most profitable fight in history, setting pay-per-view records. Photo: TNS
World Boxing Organization

Lin Yu-ting to compete in first international boxing event since gender row

The decision means the 30-year-old can participate in the Asian Boxing Championships in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar starting March 28.

Manny Pacquiao

Mayweather to fight Pacquiao in long-awaited Las Vegas rematch in September

Bout announced days after Floyd Mayweather comes out of retirement and will be rematch of blockbuster 2015 clash.

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Manny Pacquiao

Pacquiao returns to Las Vegas for 10-round exhibition fight against Provodnikov

Manny Pacquiao looking forward to ‘great fight’ against former world champion Ruslan Provodnikov on April 18.

Mario Barrios (left) hits Manny Pacquiao in the 10th round of their WBC welterweight title fight at MGM Grand Garden Arena on July 19, 2025 in Las Vegas. Photo: AFP
Anthony Joshua

Anthony Joshua returns to gym following car crash that killed two of his friends

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said: ‘I do think he will want to return to boxing, but that will be his decision when the time is right’.

Wellness

Singaporean pro boxer uses skills from the ring to dominate life’s other fights

Efasha Kamarudin credits boxing for helping her build self-confidence, tackle body-size hang-ups and bounce back from new motherhood blues.

Tyson Fury

Fury’s back and getting ready to ‘punch men in the face and get paid for it’

Tyson Fury getting back in the ring a year after announcing that he was quitting boxing.

Tyson Fury retired last year after a second points loss to heavyweight rival Oleksandr Usyk. Photo: Reuters
Anthony Joshua

Driver in fatal Anthony Joshua car crash charged with dangerous driving

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was driving the British boxer and 2 of his friends when their car crashed on Monday, killing Joshua’s friends.

People walk past the scene of a crash involving British boxer Anthony Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. Photo: Federal Road Safety Corps via AP
Anthony Joshua

Ex-boxing champ Joshua discharged from hospital after surviving fatal car crash

Anthony Joshua is ‘clinically fit’ to be allowed to go home following death of two close friends in Nigeria.

Anthony Joshua

Ex-heavyweight champion Joshua ‘stable’ after Nigeria crash kills 2 friends

Two close friends of the British boxer die after the car they are in collides with a truck on country’s notorious Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Floyd Mayweather

Biggest fight in Japanese boxing history: ‘Monster’ Inoue has plan for Nakatani

Two of world’s best pound-for pound boxers must first clear Mexican opposition before Nakatani can have shot at Inoue’s title.

Naoya Inoue after defeating Ramon Cardenas in a junior featherweight title match in May in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Jake Paul

Anthony Joshua knocks out Jake Paul to win controversial Netflix boxing bout

Former world heavyweight champion makes hard work of beating YouTuber in Miami.

Jake Paul (left) does his best to avoid a swinging right hand from Anthony Joshua during their bout at the Kaseya Centre in Miami. Photo: Reuters
Obituaries

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Jake Paul

Paul v Joshua mismatch latest illustration of seismic shift in boxing landscape

YouTuber fancies his chances in Netflix-streamed bout against ex-heavyweight champion, who ominously says boxers have ‘licence to kill’.

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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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Louis Cheung Kai-chung in a still from Golden Boy.
Trending in China

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

Champion athlete who was stabbed in head during violent assault on bus tried to fight back but wife stopped him fearing for his career.

World Boxing Council

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

Saagar Pradhan will defend WBO Youth APAC super welterweight title at Southorn Stadium in October.

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.

Actress Sydney Sweeney (left) will play former boxer Christy Martin (right) in the new biopic Christy, which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month. Photo: @christy_r_martin/Instagram
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.

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.

The recent deaths of two boxers on the same card in Japan has shaken the sport to its very core in the country. Photo: Handout
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.

Japanese boxing officials have held emergency meetings and are introducing safety measures such as urine tests for measuring dehydration and stricter rules on boxers’ rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock Images
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.

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.

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