Ali - who started boxing professionally in 1999 and won her first world boxing title in 2002 - was to trade blows with O'Neil, a little-known Guyanese boxer, in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
Still, in this small but sports-obsessed country, all national champions--whether in baseball, boxing or fishing--are revered.
The bouts were part of a three-day boxing festival in Cardiff that culminates on Sunday with the World Boxing Confederation's star-studded Night of Champions.
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- British teenager Amir Khan became the youngest Olympic boxing medalist in over 50 years when he demolished South Korea's Baik Jong-sub in the first round on Tuesday to storm through to the semifinals.
The film profiles four people whose lives center on the New Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a dingy bare-bones gym in the heart of one of New York's most hope-deprived neighborhoods.
The drivers went on strike on Boxing Day in a long-running dispute over bank holiday pay, disrupting services.
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"It was not so much the count - that happens in boxing as referees always go with the promoter, the people that pay their wages, " said Limond's manager.
When he cracked a rib in a boxing bout during the pre-Ashes bonding trip to Germany, it had been feared Anderson might not play in the early tour games.
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Maccarinelli's third professional knock-out leaves his boxing career hanging in the balance after being beaten by an explosive shot in the ninth round.
At the time Newport-born McGoldrick, who was the youngest of Wales' nine-man boxing team at the Games in Dehli, said he was "a little disappointed" to lose the final but "I tried my best and I'm over the moon with silver".
Last year a cartoon in La Reforma, a center-right newspaper, depicted an oversize Slim in a boxing ring, splayed on his back and squashing a tiny opponent.
Jones is unlikely to start in the game against Northampton Saints on Boxing day, after only one A-team game and appearing as a replacement in the home tie with Connacht.
Along the way she persuaded the biggest name in the Philippines -- boxing legend Manny Pacquiao -- to join her fight.
Costello said Gavin was not able to step up to the heavier class because fellow British boxing team-mate Bradley Saunders had already qualified in the light-welterweight.
But that was before the Premier League and Watson's ring-induced injuries banished boxing to hidden corners in the tabloids, buried beneath news of Becks' new barnet and nightclub brawls.
Thus, the adoption of gloves to make bare-knuckled boxing safer made it possible for fighters to throw head punches without breaking their hands--resulting in more brain injuries and death.
As in 2006-07, Adelaide and Perth will host the second and third Tests with the traditional Boxing Day Test in Melbourne followed by the New Year finale in Sydney.
Best to take nobody at their word in this elaborate game of shadow-boxing.
DeGale, who fights out of the Dale Youth Boxing Club in London, extended his lead to 6-3 after three rounds and opened up in some style in the final round.
One of the few Australians to have appeared on anybody's list of famous management gurus, Elton Mayo (1880-1949) was born in Adelaide on Boxing Day 1880 and studied psychology at the city's university.
In boxing, driven these days by pay-per-view buys for big fights, the industry powers that be have to be more conscious of delivering value, according to HBO Sports Senior Vice President Mark Taffet.
The 36-year-old, who beat Chris Eubank to win the WBO super-middleweight title in 1997, has been Welsh boxing's leading light for so long.
But the reign was short-lived, as Bowe dumped the World Boxing Council belt in a dustbin in protest at having to fight Lewis again to keep it.
She played a leading role in an all-black musical about South African boxing legend Ezekiel "King Kong" Dlamini.
Police have asked anyone with information about Mr Magag, who was last seen in Camden on Boxing Day, to contact the anti-terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321.
Unlike his Olympic successor, Britain's Sydney 2000 champion Audley Harrison, he has a formidable record in professional boxing, winning 58 of his 61 fights -- 51 by knockout.
Investec Loyal took the lead for the first time on Tuesday night after the pair had broken away from the rest of the 88-strong fleet from the start in Sydney Harbor on Boxing Day.
However, there is one festive duty the crew is happy to take part in - providing cover for the town's annual Boxing Day charity dip.
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