BOXER Robert Ellery and powerlifter Glen Puxley have both withdrawn from the Team Wales squad in Melbourne.
Cardiff-born Ellery, 19, was due to compete in the 81kg lightweight category, but has been unable to prove his fitness ahead of the scheduled bouts at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
Cambridge-born EAD powerlifter Puxley, 23 - the national and British […]
Soulan Pownceby will not fight at a tournament in Canberra this week with the rest of the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team as he had insufficient time to get a visa.
The chances of boxer Soulan Pownceby competing in Melbourne may rest with Australian Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone.
Any athlete chosen to represent a country at the 2006 Commonwealth Games must be cleared to do so by the country hosting the games.
BOXER Anthony Little’s plea to rejoin the Commonwealth Games team has been rejected by Boxing Australia, which refused to alter its selection criteria after he tested positive to marijuana use.
Little, 25, tested positive after his win at the Australian trials in August and was banned for two years by Boxing Australia.
Prime Minister John Howard believes a New Zealand boxer jailed for the manslaughter of his five-month-old daughter should not compete in the March Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
In 1995 Kiwi Soulan Pownceby, then known as Soulan Rikihana, was sentenced to four years in prison for the manslaughter death of his five-month-old daughter Jeanette.
Following his release from prison […]
The coach of champion Australian boxer, Anthony Little, banned from fighting at the Commonwealth Games after testing positive for marijuana is threatening to take the case to the Supreme Court.
Fundo Mhura is hoping to box for Malawi in Melbourne next month but must raise his own funds after his bid to fight for Scotland was ended because of passport problems.
Although final team selection didn’t go as smoothly as Arash Usmanee had planned, the Lodgepole boxer came out on top and secured himself a spot on the national boxing team heading to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia next month.
Boxer makes team for Commonwealth Games
Weenink is a chance at Melbourne for three main reasons - first, he has fought extremely well out of New Zealand and has done particularly well against the top Australians; second, he is a scientific boxer with a good jab, important as that is a good points-scorer in boxing; and third, the super-heavyweight division usually […]
Australian Boxer Anthony Little may miss out on getting in the ring at the Commonwealth Games after being tested positive for marijuana use and then given a reprieve from a court ruling that he was the victim of passive smoking.
Little received a two year ban in August after testing positive but was found that he […]
A 22 year old joiner from Christchurch is now back in the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team after the NZOC accepted his resubmitted bid from Boxing New Zealand. Carl Commons was originally named in the team before it was ratified, only to be told that he hadn’t made the cut.
Stunned Commons gets games boxing […]
Featherweight boxer Scott Gardner will not be competing at the Commonwealth Games after he put his hand through a window on Christmas eve, badly severing the tendons on his left hand.
This loss leaves the New Zealand boxing team with five remaining competitors Joe Blackbourne (Wellington-Hutt), Jamie Gardner (Wellington-Hutt), Kahukura Bentson (Auckland), Soulan Pownceby (Canterbury) and […]
Six boxers have been named in the New Zealand team to box at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March including one who was part of a large media bashing during the Athens Olympics.
Soulan Pownceby, who was sentenced to four years in jail for killing his five month old daughter in 1995 was plauged by […]
Caribbean welterweight champion Courtney Simister made a successful return to the ring on the weekend and has his sites set firmly on Melbourne.
“The Commonwealth box-off is a must,” Simister told journalists after he beat Anthony Williams of Job Walters Gym at ‘Saturday Night at the Fights’, put on by the Jamaica Boxing Board at Oakton […]
Kenya has doubled its Manchester contigent of boxers to ten despite not coming away with any medals from the last Games. Kenya’s performance at the last Games has been described as dismal and put down to being under-prepared with boxers with very little international exposure.
Melbourne Commonwealth Games: Boxing: Light Flyweight 48kg: Review, Results and Medalists
The Light Flyweight 48kg event is part of the Boxing discipline
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners for the Light Flyweight 48kg event will be announced below as results come to hand from Melbourne.
Keep up to date with all the latest Light Flyweight 48kg news, […]
Melbourne Commonwealth Games: Boxing: Light Flyweight 48kg: Review, Results and Medalists
The Light Flyweight 48kg event is part of the Boxing discipline
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners for the Light Flyweight 48kg event will be announced below as results come to hand from Melbourne.
Keep up to date with all the latest Light Flyweight 48kg news, […]
Melbourne Commonwealth Games: Boxing: Flyweight 51kg: Review, Results and Medalists
The Flyweight 51kg event is part of the Boxing discipline
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners for the Flyweight 51kg event will be announced below as results come to hand from Melbourne.
Keep up to date with all the latest Flyweight 51kg news, information and results as […]
Melbourne Commonwealth Games: Boxing: Flyweight 51kg: Review, Results and Medalists
The Flyweight 51kg event is part of the Boxing discipline
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners for the Flyweight 51kg event will be announced below as results come to hand from Melbourne.
Keep up to date with all the latest Flyweight 51kg news, information and results as […]
Melbourne Commonwealth Games: Boxing: Bantamweight 54kg: Review, Results and Medalists
The Bantamweight 54kg event is part of the Boxing discipline
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winners for the Bantamweight 54kg event will be announced below as results come to hand from Melbourne.
Keep up to date with all the latest Bantamweight 54kg news, information and results as […]