Raffaele Bergamasco

NEW DELHI: In a jolt to Indian boxing ahead of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, High Performance Director (HPD), Sweden's Santiago Nieva, on Friday resigned from his position, citing a "better opportunity" from Boxing Australia. Santiago…

Express News Service CHENNAI: The IBA Women's World Boxing Championships is around the corner. In a calendar year that has events like Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, the World Championships is the first real test…

NEW DELHI: Raffaele Bergamasco is feeling ‘humiliated’ and is ‘extremely disappointed’ with the way authorities in India have treated him despite putting in his “heart and soul” into Indian boxing. All Bergamasco — women’s boxing’s High…

Boxer Lovlina Borgohain showed immense courage, sound technique and clever strategy to conquer former world champion Chen Nien-chin in the 69kg quarterfinals. The 23-year-old Assam girl went into the bout relaxed, not thinking about…

From the moment the announcer at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan arena called out her name and she walked out slamming her gloves against each other, Pooja Rani meant business. She entered the ring sans histrionics and walked away the winner with…

CHANDIGARH: Going against her father's initial hesitation of taking up a traditionally male-dominated sport to defying the doctor's advice for operating on her injured shoulder, boxer Pooja Rani Bohra has punched out all odds to eventually…

Six-time world champion sets sights on elusive gold in her final Olympics"My goal is to win the elusive Olympic gold medal," came the reply from India's most decorated boxer while preparing for her final Games fling in the Italian town of…

Assam's first Olympic boxer Lovlina is making up for lost time due to mother's transplant & the pandemic to shine at her first games outingThe past few months have been tough for Lovlina Borgohain. The first female boxer from Assam to…

PUNE: Olympic-bound Indian women boxers M C Mary Kom (51kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) were given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Both Mary Kom and Lovlina are training at the Army Sports Institute here. The training…