The Japanese Boxing Commission and the Sportswriters Club named Naoya Inoue as their 'Fighter of the Year' for a seventh ...

Forever Young won the Saudi Cup, going 1,800 meters (about 1 1/8 miles) around one turn at King Abdulaziz Racecourse, by a ...

Japanese world titleholder Naoya Inoue has resumed intense training in readiness to defend his undisputed super-bantamweight ...

Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate wins record £1m after wrongful conviction - The case relied heavily on a confession ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

Born in 1949, the boxer grew up poor in the segregated American South, before dropping out of junior high school and using his size and fists in street robberies. He would later write he was ...

Marat Grigorian is ready to bring the fire to Tokyo as he prepares to face Japanese kickboxing star Kaito Ono at ONE 172. The Armenian powerhouse is no stranger to the bright lights, and he ...

It is possible.” On Saturday, Siraj suspects her fast will end a couple of hours before she’s set to take to the ring against Japanese amateur champion, Aima Hattori. In that time, Siraj ...

A left uppercut and a right hook from her opponent were among the string of punches that had become too much to overcome for the 18-year-old Mexican boxer. Her trainer, on-site paramedics and a ...