According the organisers, registration is free and intending participants can pick up their forms at the NBB of Secretariat at the National Stadium, Lagos
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The forms are available and at no cost. The search is open to boxers from all parts of the country. This is an opportunity for young boxers to get into the professional category,” Aboderin said.
In attendance at the ceremony were members of the board and management of the team, led by Adewunmi Ogunsanya, the Chairman; MultiChoice Nigeria, promoters of GOtv; Chairman, Lagos State Football Association, Seyi Akinwunmi; ex internationals, Peter Rufai, Waidi Akanni, Victor Aghali and Ifeanyi Udeze; players and coaches of the club; among many other dignitaries
According to Jenkins Alumona, the CEO of Flykite Sports, promoters of GOtv Boxing Night, GOtv NextGen Search was conceived to give hidden boxing talents an opportunity to demonstrate their prowess as a route to getting selected for big fight events, particularly GOtv Boxing Night, the biggest ever boxing event in Nigeria
He effectively held off his opponent’s savage punches, while delivering his own with brutal efficiency that yielded a 10th-round knockout
In the super middleweight category, Sunday “Golden Child” Ajuwa will take on Rasheed “Afonja Warrior” Abolaji in a national challenge contest
The biggest is the African Boxing Union featherweight title bout between reigning champion, Waidi “Skoro” Usman, and Edward “Shaka” Kakembo of Uganda
Speaking at his training camp in Lagos on Wednesday, Capo, a fearsome puncher, said his opponent will regret taking on him for the title.
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“I will win the African title and the cash prize for the best boxer of the tournament to make my fans back home very happy at this period. It is their Christmas gift. They deserve it and I will not disappoint,” said the Ugandan Professional Boxing Commission champion and knockout specialist
Alumona called on parents to come to the National Stadium in Lagos, venue of the event, with their children, who are assured of being given a wide variety of gifts
Kakembo is billed to take on Nigeria’s Waidi “Skoro” Usman, the National and West African Boxing Union Featherweight champion, in the headline bout at the GOtv Boxing Night on December 26 in Lagos
Kakembo, who has a fight record of nine wins in as many fights, was named following the injury-enforced withdrawal of Kenya’s Francis Kimani, who was initially billed to duel for the title with Skoro
Speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, Usman, who also holds the national title, said Nyawade’s impressive record of 12 wins (nine KOs), three losses and two draws in 14 fights will count for nothing when the clash
Speaking at the press conference, Jenkins Alumona, the promoter of the four-fight professional boxing event slated for December 26 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos, said the headline sponsors, GOtv, decided to increase the cash prize as a way of further motivating participating boxers and accelerating the envisaged revival of the sport in the country
Fijabi, winner of the N1 million cash prize and the Mojisola Ogunsnaya Trophy for the best boxer at the third edition of GOtv Boxing Night, disclosed his resumption to training in Lagos during the week
Joseph, who knocked out National Lightweight champion, Nurudeen “Prince” Fatai, in the fourth round of their national challenge bout at the GOtv Boxing Night last month and was adjudged the best boxer at the event, is slated to fight for a national title at the next edition of the event in December
Joseph, who knocked out National Lightweight champion, Nurudeen “Prince” Fatai, in the fourth round of their eight round national lightweight challenge at the event on Sunday, is the second winner of the cash prize, the biggest amount ever paid to a boxer in Nigeria.
Fatai, the National Lightweight champion, dealt his opponent furious combination of blows and was adjudged winner by unanimous decision
The event, which kicks off at 4pm, will feature six professional fights and parade the cream of Nigerian boxing talents and a top boxer from Burkina Faso
Nigeria’s Isaac “Grenade” Ekpo, a former Commonwealth Super Middleweight champion, has vowed to stop his opponent, Jules “Tyson” Kabore of Burkina Faso, in the fourth of their 10-round contest when they meet in the event’s headline bout