Patrick ‘Alige’ Ayi defied the odds to annex the Ghana super featherweight title via a split points decision in Accra on Saturday night despite fighting with one hand all night long in the main event of the Azumah Nelson Fight Night in honour of the legendary Ghanaian boxer.
Ghana’s Rafael Mensah is overly confident he will emerge winner of his crunch challenge for the WBA super featherweight world championship against the title holder, Alberto Machado of Puerto Rico on Saturday night.
The countdown is over and all ten boxers scheduled to fight Saturday night on the Azumah Nelson Fight Night – The Battle boxing extravaganza to honour Ghanaian ring legend, Azumah Nelson in Accra, made their required weights to set up five evenly-matched bouts at the plush Bukom Boxing Arena.
Ghana’s only reigning world champion, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe and his dad/trainer, Paul have been singing the virtues of Isaac’s legendary predecessor, Azumah Nelson who turns 60 years old today.
WBO junior featherweight champion, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe and his dad/trainer, Paul Dogboe are urging countryman, Rafael Mensah to believe in God, go all out and fight for what belongs to him to make himself, his family and Ghana proud on Saturday night when the man nicknamed ‘Sweet Pea’ steps into the ring against Alberto Machado of Puerto Rico for the WBA super featherweight title of the world.
Wasiru ‘Gyata Bi’ Mohammed retained his Ghana national super bantamweight title with a terrific round 2 KO of compatriot, Raymond ‘Chorkor Banku’ Commey at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra on Saturday night.
Wasiru ‘Gyata Bi’ Mohammed and Raymond ‘Chorkor Banku’ Commey both made the required weights at Friday morning’s weigh-in to set up their clash for the Ghana national super bantamweight championship at the Bukom Boxing Arena tomorrow night.
Ghana’s Patrick Allotey continues his chase up the world rankings and world title prospects on August 11 when he defends his WBO Africa junior middleweight title against Badru Lusambya of Uganda at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra.
Azumah ‘The Professor’ Nelson, the legendary 3-time world boxing champion, born July 19, 1958 will celebrate his 60th birthday with an action packed fight night at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra on July 21.
Ghana’s George ‘Red Tiger’ Ashie will seek to announce himself to the boxing world in a test of his readiness to take on the best lightweights in world boxing against Stephen Ormond of Ireland in the UK on August 24.