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George Kambosos Jr. beat the Filipino Ray Perez in a bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night. The Greek-Australian professional boxer won the eight-round, 135-pound fight against Perez. All three judges, Patricia Morse Jarman, Tim...

Stelios Longinidis, the first Australian to win world title in kick boxing, known as Stan The Man, will be inducted into Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the pantheon of top Australian athletes, on Oct. 10. Longinidis, 48, had an...

AN ex-boxer who held a sex worker captive for 40 hours over a drug debt has been jailed for four years. The Victorian County Court heard Tolli Spiliopoulos, 45, was involved in blackmails where he terrorised people for money during...

A jukebox imported to Australia from Greece was found to be hiding around 45kg (99 lbs) of cocaine, which was estimated to be worth around $22 million AUD. A total of three men have been arrested in the city of...

Greek-Australian George Kambosos Jr won Boxing's IBF, WBA and WBO Lightweight titles from Teófimo López in a seismic upset on Saturday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The ferocious Spartan from Sydney, who started out as a 6-1...

The Victorian Government recently honored twenty eminent Aboriginal people. One of them was Merle Jackomos, who was honored for providing service to the Yorta Yorta nation with a strong sense of social justice. Merle Jackomos was the wife of...

Michael Alan Katsidis, 31, is an Australian professional boxer of Greek descent, and one of the top boxers in the world. A former two-time WBO (World Boxing Organization) interim lightweight titleholder whose crowd-pleasing, all-action fighting style has often drawn comparisons...

Greek-Australian Evangelos Goussis was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the murders of two victims of the Melbourne gangland killings. The former boxer will stay in prison for at least 27 years after he lost his final appeal. Goussis...

Stavros Margaritis is a kangaroo hunter, who has killed over a million kangaroos for a living. Mr. Stavros was born in 1937, in Vounichora, Fokida and has become a legend for Australians. He is a “unique” man, whose life...

The racing industry is in shock today after Greek Australian jockey Stathi Katsidis was found dead in his home this morning at the age of 31. According to multiple Australian media reports, Stathi Katsidis was found dead by his girlfriend...

Exceptional skills are valuable attributes for a top-level prizefighter. Enduring a torturous training regimen in the weeks leading up to a major bout is a necessity. While Michael Katsidis (photo)  lacks the former, he makes up for it with...

Greek-Australian boxer Michael Katsidis beat Vicente Escobedo in Las Vegas earning the interim lightweight boxing world title. Katsidis now faces World Boxing Organization lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez for the world title. Michael Katsidis - who appears on the ring...