By Akeem Lawal
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| Boxers in sparring session |
The boxers were selected from a crowd of over 100 boxers,
who participated in sparring sessions that lasted two days.
Joe Mensah, renowned boxing coach and head of the
selection panel, thanked the sponsors for their desire to see the country
produce a new generation of professional boxers.
General Secretary of the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control,
Remi Aboderin, described the decision of the sponsors to pay for the
professional licenses of the boxers as a bold sign of encouragement, adding
that the products of GOtv Boxing NextGen Search 1, who benefited from a similar
gesture, have started doing well as professionals.
Jenkins Alumona, Managing Director, Flykite Promotions,
organisers of the talent search, said one of the boxers selected from the GOtv
Boxing NextGen Search will make his professional debut at GOtv Boxing Night 9
on 2 October.
The selection panel identified three boxers as having
showed more promise than others. They are Oluwaseyi Samson (lightweight),
Akintayo Femi (super middleweight) and Emmanuel Chukwuma (light heavyweight).
The three were given GOtv decoders and will join three others in camp at the
Lagos Boxing Hall of Fame Gym in September.
NAMES
OF BOXERS SELECTED
S/N Name Weight (KG) Category
1. Michael Sadiq 58.96 Super Featherweight
2. Tope Oladipupo 58.2 Super Featherweight
3. Oluwaseyi
Samson 60.4 Lightweight
4. Ajadi Fatai 61.3 Light Welterweight
5. Saidi Balogun 63.9
Super Lightweight
6. Tijani Azeez 64.4 Welterweight
7. Sikiru Ogabi 65.7 Welterweight
8. Semiu Olapade 68.9
Super Welterweight
9. Michael
Ikehikwe 69 Super Welterweight
10. Abiodun
Akinboye 69.4 Super Welterweight
11. Adewunmi
Moses 71 Middleweight
12. Akintayo Femi 75.3 Super Middleweight
13. Emmanuel
Chukwuma 77.2 Light Heavyweight
14. Balogun Wasiu 80.4 Cruiserweight
15. Tunde Fatai 84.8 Cruiserweight
16. Nwafor Junior 85.6 Cruiserweight
Others Photos: The best three boxers receiving their GOtv decoders
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