Stories by Leroy Brown

The boxing fraternity worldwide is mourning the death of Jamaican boxing promoter and businessman Lucien Chen.Chen died at age 88 in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday. He had been residing in the United States for several years.The Jamaican was well...

In what could be a signal that he is moving up to a higher weight class, former World Boxing Association (WBA) Featherweight Super Champion Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters, will be fighting American super-featherweight Jason Sosa in a 10-round bout at...

One of the most long-standing and controversial rules in Davis Cup tennis, that the tie-breaker cannot be used in the fifth set of a match, will be changed in 2016.This was one of the major changes made at the annual general meeting of the...

Wray and Nephew Middleweight Contender 2015 champion Kemahl Russell is now in New York for special training.Russell, who will be away for one month, was accompanied by his manager, Leiza Keane.Keane told The Gleaner before departure that after his...

Bruising Gym, in Stony Hill, one of Jamaica's most successful boxing gyms, celebrates its seventh anniversary on Saturday night, with an eight-bout amateur boxing card, at the Stony Hill Primary and Junior High School, that will see boxers from that...

Jamaica's amateur boxers will go up against a six-man contingent from the British Virgin Islands (BVI) tomorrow, in a show that has been arranged by the Jamaica Boxing Board, in association with the Olympia Crown Hotel, Molynes Road. There will be...

Alicia 'Slick' Ashley will get the opportunity to regain her World Boxing Council (WBC) Super bantamweight title on September 15, when she meets Christina 'Lightning' McMahon from Ireland in Astoria, Queens, New York.She lost the title on September...

Boxing powerhouse Cuba made it clear that they are the top nation in the sport in the Americas, and are still a potent force in world amateur boxing, when they won 10 medals in the recently concluded Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. They were...

Kemahl 'The Hitman' Russell used amazing hand speed to totally overwhelm his opponent, Richard 'Frog' Holmes, and take home the Wray...

Five days of fierce competition between the top young players in Jamaica was seen at the Access All Jamaica (AJ) 2015 Junior tournament, which took place from Wednesday, July 1 to Sunday, July 5, on the recently resurfaced Eric Bell Tennis Centre...

Twenty-six-year-old Kemahl Russell represented the young brigade well and earned himself a spot in the finals of the Wray and Nephew 2015 Middleweight Contender series by scoring an impressive victory on Wednesday night over 38-year-old Devon...