Category: Boxing

• Four-weight champion suffering from ‘health complication’
• Durán, 72, being treated in a hospital in native Panama

Agencies

Boxing great Roberto Durán was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday.

Durán, who was a champion in four different weight classes, “has suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade”, his family said in a statement on Durán’s Instagram account.… Read the rest

• Fury to face Ngannou under professional boxing rules
• Ngannou was stripped of UFC title over contract dispute

Guardian sport and agencies

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will take on former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia on 28 October in a bout under professional boxing rules, the fight’s promoters said on Tuesday.… Read the rest

• Sydney boxer KO’d challenger in first round with devastating barrage
• Tszyu will now fight Jermell Charlo to unify super-welterweight belts

Guardian sport

Australian boxing’s prodigal son Tim Tszyu has shrugged off a dog bite that required 26 stitches to his arm 23 days ago, to come out swinging and knock out Carlos Ocampo 72-seconds into the first round of their super-welterweight bout on the Gold Coast.… Read the rest