But nothing was working.” The next day, whānau took Mea to a chemist in Kaitaia for a second opinion. The pharmacist was firm ...

Our Kiwi boxing champion Mea Motu pulls no punches when she opens up about the biggest fight of her life that led to her ...

Former world champion boxer Mea Motu has been hospitalised with pneumonia and deep vein thrombosis after returning to New Zealand from England earlier this week. Motu travelled to Nottingham with ...

Mea Motu’s reign as the IBO super-bantamweight world champion has ended, with England’s Ellie Scotney leaving their bout in Nottingham as the unified world champion. Scotney proved to be too ...

It's the fight Mea Motu has been asking for and history now beckons for the NightMea on Sunday against fellow unbeaten boxer Ellie Scotney. New Zealand's Motu, the reigning IBO super bantamweight ...

Ellie Scotney believes her impressive performance in victory on Saturday over Mea Motu owes to the spiritual “growth” she underwent while inactive for so much of 2024. The IBF and WBO super ...

Tauranga ’s WBA world bantamweight champion Cherneka “Sugar Neekz” Johnson ( Ngāti Ranginui) is set to defend her world boxing title in a rematch against Nina Hughes in Sydney on March 22.

Scotney in January impressed when defending her IBF and WBO junior featherweight titles against New Zealand’s Mea Motu, and followed doing so by revealing her desire to challenge Nicolson of ...

Ellie Scotney believes that by the end of this year she and gym-mate Caroline Dubois will both be undisputed champions. She is also confident that two other boxers from trainer Shane McGuigan's ...

A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days: Florian Schieder of Italy prepares at the start for the first Men's Downhill training ...