By Akeem Lawal
Light Welter Weight
boxer, Hammed Ganiyu emerged the best boxer at the maiden ‘Return of Victory
Night’ boxing championship held at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall
of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on Sunday night.
Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com reports that the boxing event
packaged by a United Kingdom - based boxing promotion company, Ace's Solid
Sports, saw Ganiyu defeated Samuel Opaogun by unanimous referee’s decision and
also went home with a cash prize of N100,000.
It was a night full
of boxing action from both amateur and professional pugilists who entertained
the fans who included the Director General of Lagos State Sports Commission,
Hon. Babatunde Bank-Anthony, President of Nigerian Boxing Board of Control (NBB
of C), Dr Rafiu Ladipo, former Olympians, Jerry Okorodudu, Obisia Nwankpa and a
host of other boxing enthusiasts who paid gate fees to enter the sports hall.
The other bouts in
the professional cadre saw Yusuf Olalekan defeated Moses Odion by knock out in
Rnd 1 of their Fly Weight Challenge bout, while Taiwo Agbaje shocked boxing fans
present in the hall by knocking out Tunde Olajide also in Round 1 of their
Feather Weight Challenge bout. Nigeria’s Onoriode Ehiwareme knocked out Ghanaian Kofi Johnson in Round Four of their Heavy
Weight bout.
The amateur boxers
really proved themselves worthy of moving up the ladder to the professional
cadre. Olamide Mustapha won the female fight (Bantam Weight) against Adebayo
Damilola, Aliu Ibrahim won the Light Weight fight against Bernard Sunday. The Light
Welter Weight bout between Kabiru Salawu and Kazeem Saka ended in favour of
Salawu.
In a chat with Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com,
CEO of Ace’s Solid Sports Boxing Promotion, Mr. Tunde Adegbuyi, who was
overwhelmed with the turnout of boxing fans, assured that the next edition will
be bigger and better packaged.
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| Tunde Adegbuyi |
“The championship has
been great from start to finish. I never knew a lot of people will come out for
the event, it is very overwhelming and I’m very happy and I will still do
another one very soon.
“We did not start the
promotion early but what I have seen so far is very encouraging. From the
boxers, the amateur to the professionals, they were all brilliant. I also want
to appeal to other boxing promoters to come out and help these boxers because
they need to fight regularly,” Adegbuyi told Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com.
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