Kofi Owusu Aduonum Former WBA Welterweight champion, Joshua Clottey, has made a humble appeal to the Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Abdul Rashid Pelpuo, for the construction of a boxing gymnasium in the country. During his courtesy call on the Minister, at his office yesterday, Clottey noted that the sport is doing well, [...]
Read the rest of this story »Kofi Owusu Aduonum Joshua Cottey, the former WBA Welterweight champion has said the relationship between him and his trainer, Kwame Asante, ended following Asante’s display of ‘lack of vision’ in his fight against Miguel Cotto. "I was expecting him to urge me on to go all out, especially in the last round, but he [...]
Read the rest of this story »Former IBF Welterweight champion, Joshua Clottey may face “Sugar†Shane Mosley or Andre Berto for a shot at a major title in November. The 32-year old has been without a title since a split decision loss to Miguel Cotto last month for the latter’s WBO Welterweight title. Clottey who made this remarks [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana’s Jospeh Agbeko retained the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title on Saturday with a unanimous decision over Australian-based Armenian Vic Darchinyan. Agbeko overcame a controversial knockdown in the seventh round to improve to 27-1 and denied Darchinyan a world title in his third different weight class, dropping the undisputed super flyweight world champion to 32-2 [...]
Read the rest of this story »Mr Abdul-Rashid Pelpuo, Minister of Youth and Sports (MYS) has sent a goodwill message to Joseph Agbeko as he prepares to defend his International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight title against Vic Darchinyan on Armenia on Saturday, July 11, in the United States of America (USA). A statement signed on behalf of the Minister by [...]
Read the rest of this story »The man who handled former WBA welterweight title holder, Ike “Bazooka†Quartey during his days in the ring, Dan Oko Odamtten, believes he may not fight again. “Ike is now very seriously in business in Accra, managing his hotel and trying to take care of other things but not to do what he knows best,†[...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana’s Joshua Clottey went into the ring on the night of June 13, 2009, primarily to wrest the WBO welterweight championship belt from its holder, Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico. If he had succeeded, it would have stood out as something no one has been able to do in boxing history — defeat a Puerto [...]
Read the rest of this story »Moses Foe Amoaning, Chairman of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) is among a high number of profile personalities who have been dumped in a major shake-up at the National Sports Council (NSC). The former Chairman who has survived several shake-ups has been swept aside, according to information pieced together by GNA Sports in Accra on [...]
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