Mayweather keeps his promise
Floyd Mayweather has made good on a promise to donate $100 000 (nearly R800 000) to a breast cancer support organisation.
The undefeated American on Wednesday gave the money to officials from the Susan G Komen for the Cure research and support foundation.
The presentation was made during a news event at Mayweather’s gym in Las Vegas.
Foundation executive Stephanie Kirby said the donation would go a long way at the Las Vegas non-profit organisation, which operates with an annual budget of about $1 million.
Mayweather's lawyers promised the judge who sentenced him in December in a domestic battery case that the boxer would make the donation. Mayweather is due to serve a 90-day jail sentence resulting from the case from June 1.
BRÄHMER BACK IN BUSINESS
Ron Jackson reports that former WBO and European light heavyweight champion Jürgen Brähmer returns to action for the first time in nine months when he fights Jose Maria Guerrero in Hamburg, Germany, on January 28.
Kell Brook will defend his WBA Intercontinental welterweight title against Matthew Hatton in Sheffield, England, in March 17.
Former British and European lightweight champion Dave “Boy’ Green has been awarded the MBE in the Queen’s new year honours list.
Green challenged Carlos Palamino and Sugar Ray Leonard for the world welterweight title, but lost to both.
Welshman Brian Curvis, a former British and Empire welterweight champion, has died in Middlesbrough, England. He was 74.
The southpaw lost only four fights as a professional, including one against South African Willie Ludick.
Curvis lost in a challenge against world welterweight champion Emile Griffith in September 1964. His other losses were to Guy Sumlin, Ludick and Jean Josselin. In a return bout with Sumlin he won on points over ten rounds.
As an amateur, he won a British title and at the 1958 Empire Games in Wales he lost to South Africa’s Jopie Greyling. He received a bronze medal as a losing semifinalist.
Former Empire heavyweight champion Joe Bygraves of Jamaica has died at the age of 79.
Bygraves was based in the UK when he fought some of the best heavyweights in the 1950s and 1960s. Among them were Henry Cooper, Dick Richardson, Ingemar Johansson, Jack Gardner, Kitione Lave, Joe Erskine and Willie Pastrano.
Timothy Goodall died on January 3 at the age 78. He trained boxers at the Savannah Boxing Club in Houston for many years and coached former lightweight champion Joel Diaz.