Thinus Strydom of World Sport Promotions, and Francois Botha, following the controversy of the Francois ‘White Buffalo’ Botha versus Sonny Bill Williams in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday, February 8, 2013 have issued the following statement: Thinus Strydom: I was greatly disappointed with the turn of events at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday night. Early […]
While the Aussies are investigating corruption in sport they should take a hard look at the WBA International Heavyweight bout between Sonny Bill Williams and Frans Botha in Brisbane earlier today. It was farce! Billed as a 12 round fight for the vacant WBA International Heavyweight Title, the referee called “This is the last round” […]
The Dakar returns to South America for a fifth time. The intrepid pilots will start from Lima, Peru, on January 5, and make their way to Santiago, Chile, over the Andes and the Atacama Desert via Argentina. It is till not quite the “Dakar” but the topography and hazardous conditions across the Andes and Atacama […]
The South African Press Association is reporting that South African Olympic mountainbike ace Burry Stander died after being hit by a taxi on Thursday, this has been confirmed by Cycling SA “He was returning from a training ride in Shelly Beach, on the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) south coast, and was hit by a vehicle,” said CSA […]
The countdown for next year’s PSA World Squash Championship in England is now underway following the formal handover of the title in Qatar to the organisers of the 2013 event in Manchester. The Qatar PSA World Championship brought the elite 2012 PSA World Series calendar to a sensational climax in Doha last week when Ramy […]
Julian Illingworth, the sole US entrant in the main draw of the Betty F Griffin Memorial Florida State Open, produced the perfect home result by winning the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at the Lifetime Athletic Club in Boca Raton, USA. The top-seeded 28-year-old from New York reached the 19th Tour final of […]
Clinton Leeuw had to survive a 95-minute first round marathon in the Betty F Griffin Memorial Florida State Open before claiming his place in the quarter-finals of the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at the Lifetime Athletic Club in Boca Raton, USA. The Cape Town-born 30-year-old beat Jamaican qualifier Christopher Binnie 6-11, 11-8, […]
In a sensational all-Egyptian clash which went down to the wire, Ramy Ashour triumphed over outsider Mohamed El Shorbagy in the final of the Qatar PSA World Squash Championship at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha to become world champion for the second time since 2008. Ashour, who 24 hours earlier dethroned England’s defending […]
On Saturday night at the Arena Nürnberger Versicherung, Nuremberg, Germany WBO super-middleweight champion Arthur Abraham will take on Frenchman Mehdi Bouadla. Abraham had a dreadful Super Six competition losing all but one fight, but he recovered from that to take the WBO super-middleweight title from Robert Stieglitz in 2011 and has won his last three fights. Mehdi […]
Chris Simpson, an Englishman who had never before progressed beyond the opening round, today earned a place in the last 16 of the Qatar PSA World Squash Championship after upsetting ninth-seeded Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema in a dramatic five-game second round battle in Doha. Boasting a $325,000 prize-fund, the second biggest in the sport’s history, […]