Thursday, March 4, 2010

Boxing roundup pt2

Huck defeats Afolabi to retain WBO cruiserweight title

German Marco Huck (27-1 20KOs) kept his WBO cruiserweight title with a close unanimous decision victory over interim champion, England born-Nigerian Ola Afolabi (14-2-3, 6KOs) in a toe-to-toe battle on Saturday night in Germany.

Afolabi tried to control the fight with a steady jab and staggered the champion with a combination in the fifth round.

However, Huck recovered and outworked the challenger, who has often been accused of fighting lazily. Afolabi suffered his first defeat since 2003. The score totals were 115-113 twice and 116-112 for the champion.

MMA News

King Mo Wins Strikeforce Debut

American born Nigerian Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal (6-0) earned the biggest win of his budding MMA career by overwhelming veteran Mike Whitehead (24-7) via first-round TKO at Strikeforce Evolution in San Jose, California.

Giving up nearly 50 pounds and cage experience to Whitehead who was victorious in fifteen of his last sixteen fights, Lawal showed star potential in his tantalizing performance and domination of Whitehead.

The fight began as a tactical boxing match for the opening minutes when Lawal struck Whitehead with a vicious right hand sending his opponent to the canvas, Lawal pounced on the dazed Whitehead and continued to land unanswered punching forcing the referee to stop the contest.

Lawal gained notoriety fighting in the Japanese MMA promotion World Victory Road, this bout was his Strikeforce debut and his sensational performance and star potential will undoubtedly set him up for a big 2010.

Boxing roundup 1

Zaveck Shocks Hlatshwayo

Relatively unknown welterweight Jan Zaveck (28-1, 16KOs) stunned the crown at the Wembley Indoor Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa by dominating and eventually knocking out South African native Isaac Hlatshwayo (29-2, 10KOs) to win the IBF welterweight title.

Zaveck scored one knockdown in the second and two in third round; Hlatshwayo had no answer, forcing the referee to step in and stop the fight.

This bout was the first title defense for Hlatshwayo who earned the vacant crown by split-decision victory over Delvin Rodriguez in August.

Sam Peter Stops Gabe Brown in Four Rounds

Former WBC heavyweight champion Sam Peter (33-3, 26 KOs) of Nigeria now fight out of Las Vegas, NV continued on the comeback trail by stopping Gabe Brown (18-13-4, 9KOs) who weighed in at an astonishing 363 pounds, in the 4th round in Youngstown, Ohio .

This was Peter’s third straight victory fighting under Top Rank promotions all by early knockout.

After the fight Peter declared that he was ready for a title shot, preferring a rematch with either Klitschko brother, who both hold victories over Peter.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Nigeria hires Lars Lagerback to be new Coach

After finally clipping the wings off of Super Eagles Coach Shuaibu Amodu, the NFF have decided to hire former Swedish Manager Lars Lagerback to take over the team and lead them to South Africa. Lagerback will be assisted by former Eagles player and manager Austin Eguavoen as well as former Eagles goalkeeper Alloy Agu and legendary striker Daniel Amokachi.

http://goal.com/en/news/89/africa/2010/02/27/1809701/official-world-cup-2010-lars-lagerback-is-new-nigeria-coach


http://allafrica.com/stories/201003020518.html

Monday, January 25, 2010

ANC Results

Group D

Zambia-Tunisia (1-1)

Cameroon-Gabon (0-1)

Group A

Mali-Algeria(0-1)

Angola-Malawi(2-0)

Group B

Ivory Coast-Ghana(3-1)

Group C


Nigeria-Benin(1-0)

Egypt-Mozambique(2-0)

Group D

Gabon-Tunisia(0-0)

Cameroon-Zambia(3-2)

Group A


Mali-Malawi(3-1)

Angola-Algeria(0-0)

Group B

Burkina Faso-Ghana(0-1)

Group C

Nigeria-Mozambique(3-0)

Egypt-Benin(2-0)

Group D

Cameroon-Tunisia(2-2)

Gabon-Zambia(1-2)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

ANC results Group A/B/C

Group A

Angola vs Mali
4-4
Malawi vs Algeria
3-0

Group B
Ivory Coast vs Burkina Faso
0-0

Group C
Mozambique vs Benin
2-2
Egypt vs Nigeria
3-1

Togo ANC ambush/ exit from ANC

On Friday January 8th, The Togolese national team came under fire from Angolan rebels as their team bus was ambushed in the city of Cabinda.
Two members of the Togolese delegation-the team's media officer and an assistant coach as well as the bus driver were killed in the incident and reserve goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale was rushed to South Africa for medical treatment.
In the aftermath of the incident, the team were withdrawn from the tournament at the request of Togo prime minister Gilbert Houngbo.
The FLEC rebel group released a statement afterwards stating the Togolese team weren't their intended targets but words are meaningless at this point. Two members of FLEC have been arrested for their part in the incident.

ANC Previews

Previews of the 2010 African Cup of Nations

Group A-Angola, Mali, Algeria, Malawi

Group B-Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo

Group C-Egypt, Nigeria, Benin, Mozambique

Group D-Cameroon, Tunisia, Gabon, Zambia

CAF award nominees



The nominees for the African Player of the Year are as follows:

Didier Drogba
Samuel Eto'o
Michael Essien
Seydou Keita
Yaya Toure


The winner will be announced on February 25th 2010 in Dakar Senegal.