Boxing
- May 9 to May 18 – African Amateur Boxing Championships held in Yaoundé, Cameroon
- July 6 to July 13 – World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Bangkok
- August 8 to August 15 – Pan American Games held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- September 13 – Shane Mosley conquers the WBA and WBC world Jr. Middleweight titles with a 12 round unanimous decision over Oscar de la Hoya in rematch of their 2000 bout
- October 4 to October 13 – All-Africa Games held in Abuja, Nigeria
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)