By Kunle Awosiyan In 2008, a Russian giant Nikolai Valuev contested the WBA with Evander Holyfield and won. He is 7ft tall and 310 pounds against Holyfield 6:3ft and about 194 pounds. Valuev had no Holyfield’s skills but he was taller, bigger and much more younger. He was 35 while
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The Federal Government has approved January, 2025 as the official date for the 22nd edition of the National Sports Festival, tagged “Gateway Games, Ogun 2024.” In a communique released after the first National Council on Sports, held at the Old Government Lodge, Abakaliki Road, Enugu, Enugu State, the Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan […]
The Night of Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland belongs to Ademola Lookman and Atalanta. The mercurial Super Eagles of Nigeria striker scored three marvellous goals in what a football commentator at the match described as “the greatest night of his life”. It was the first time Bayer Leverkusen were beaten for the
By Kunle Awosiyan Former WBC heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, was boastful before the match that he would erase the little man, the unified and current undisputed champion, Oleksandr Usyk, in the earlier rounds of the match. Of course he did from the start but he soon lost his concentration to indiscipline, unprofessionalism as he took […]
By Kunle Awosiyan Saudi Arabia will make a record on Saturday when the WBC and Lineal Champion,Tyson Fury will face the unified champion, Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed status in the boxing heavyweight division. This is coming over two decades that British Lennox Lewis captured this title and since then, no match of this magnitude […]
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the World record holder, Tobi Amusan, for emerging as the fastest woman in the women’s 100m hurdles this year after running a blistering 12.40s to win the first Jamaica Athletics Invitational in Kingston. Amusan won the race ahead of Jamaican and World Champion, Danielle Williams. Abiodun, in […]











