Boxing

Delhi-based Omaxe Ltd announced Monday that the realty firm's wholly owned subsidiary and SPV - Worldstreet Sports Center - will be developing India's first integrated multi sports facility consisting of an international cricket and football stadium, an indoor stadium along with a retail and hospitality hub spread across an area of 50.40 acres in Delhi's Dwarka area for around Rs 1,500 crore ($180 million). 

The cost of construction will be funded through internal accruals and the company is expecting a revenue of around Rs 2,500 crore through the sale of retail units. 

May 14, 2018 13:05
NEW YORK: US based boxing promoter Matchroom Boxing and digital sports media conglomerate Perform Group have announced the creation of a $1 billion joint venture and the biggest-ever deal in boxing. The eight-year $1billion deal will see the joint venture, Matchroom Boxing USA, stage 16 fights a year featuring some of the sport’s biggest stars at the best venues across America, the two companies declared.
May 10, 2018 19:05
LONDON: British boxing star Amir Khan has announced that he and his business partner Bill Dosanjh will be bringing a franchise-based boxing league to the "old country".  "I’m bringing Super Boxing League [to Pakistan] this year and it will show the next generation of boxers," Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, said in a video.
May 07, 2018 16:05
NEW DELHI: Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat, who holds the WBC Asia-Pacific welterweight title, has signed up with Canada’s Lee Baxter Promotions on a two-year contract. Goyat, who has won nine of his 13 professional bouts, would be gunning for a second yet-to-be-announced belt next month when Lee Baxter Promotions announces his opponent and the title for which he would fight after May 19, PTI reports.
Apr 14, 2018 17:04
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA: Five-time world amateur champion and Olympic Bronze medallist MC Mary Kom further burnished her Indian boxing queen status by winning Gold in what was her debut Commonwealth Games, also perhaps her last, here Saturday. 
Apr 02, 2018 14:04
GOLD COAST: The Indian delegation at the Commonwealth Games have been ordered to appear before the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) medical commission after their boxing contingent were deemed to have committed a "clear" breach of the no-needle policy at Gold Coast 2018, it was announced here Monday.
Mar 22, 2018 17:03
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has launched a new diversity in boxing program for all of its 203 national federations. The new program will be the first in a range of initiatives to be presented in the coming months following the AIBA extraordinary congress earlier this year.
Mar 06, 2018 12:03
HYDERABAD: MultiFit, a functional fitness studio brand, has confirmed plans to invest about Rs 300 million in setting up 12 premium fitness centres in the city.  These will have a boxing rink as well as indoor cycling facilities, its founder Samir Kapoor has said.
Feb 27, 2018 16:02
NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Monday announced Edelweiss Financial Services Limited, as sponsor of the Indian contingent for 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018, 2018 Asian Games and 2020 Olympic Games as well as National Games 2018 and 2019. 
Feb 21, 2018 13:02
SINGAPORE: Fast growing Asian sports media property Ringstar Boxing Wednesday claimed to have reached a worldwide broadcast footprint of a potential billion+ viewers.
Feb 17, 2018 18:02
SINGHBHUM, Jharkhand: Tata Steel has opened a boxing centre “Noamundi Boxing Centre” (NBC) to nurture budding boxers of the region. The NBC was inaugurated Friday by Anand Sen, president TQM & Steel Business, Tata Steel along with Uttam Singh, vice president, Iron Making, Tata Steel and Pankaj Satija, general Manager, Ore Mines & Quarries (OMQ) Division, Tata Steel.