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  • Executive Secretary of WBC Cares Africa commends female boxers

     Miss Sarah Lotus Asare, Founder of the Girls Box who doubles as an Executive Secretary of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Cares Africa, has commended the young girls who took part in the 2022 edition of the boxing tournament.

    Girls Boxing tournament is an annual boxing event to give young girls interested in the sport the opportunity to showcase their talents and learn new things.

    This year’s program which started at the Wisdom Boxing Gym ended at the Accra Sports Stadium last Sunday.

    In an interview with the media, Miss Asare said she was impressed with the performance put up by the young girls, though some of them were fighting for the first time in the ring.

    “I’m really happy with the performance of the ladies. That is my most important priority for today, a lot of them were fighting intelligently and actively and I have discovered talents.

    “I’m also grateful to the officials, the clubs that are training these boxers as well as the media who came to cover the event.”

    She said some of the ladies would be selected to represent the country in an upcoming international event in Benin.

    “Based on their performance here some of the boxers would be selected for an international event in Benin, before the 2023 Africa games in Ghana.”

    Dr. Ofosu-Asare, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for Accra 2023 congratulated the young girls and pledged to continue its support for the development of female boxing.

    “I want to assure you girls that we at the LOC would continue to support female boxing and as we all know next year Ghana will be hosting the rest of Africa, we need you girls to win medals for us.

    “Ghana has never hosted the African Games before and this would be our first time hosting it and boxing is one of the sports that we count on to win medals for the country, we need you more come 2023 August,” he added.

    He added “people are complaining that there is economic hardship so we should pull out of the event, I want to assure you that the government would not do that because hosting this tournament would boost the economy.

    Mr. Evans Bernie John, the Chairman of the Greater Accra Amateur Boxing also congratulated the young girls and urged them to continue training as they were the future champions to represent Ghana.

    Source: GNA

  • Deontay Wilder SACKS his trainer after he threw in the towel in knockout defeat to Tyson Fury

    Deontay Wilder will sack his trainer Mark Breland after being left angered that he had thrown the towel in in a knockout defeat to Tyson Fury.

    Wilder’s corner threw in the towel in the seventh round of the Las Vegas showpiece and it was viewed as a sensible call after the Alabama fighter had been dropped twice earlier in the fight.

    But Wilder, and head trainer Jay Deas, spoke after the defeat that they did not agree with the move and the heavyweight is now ready to shake-up his team as a consequence.

    Wilder has revealed he will activate his rematch clause option for a trilogy fight and he will go into that fight with a new trainer.

    Speaking to Yahoo, Wilder said: ‘I am upset with Mark for the simple fact that we’ve talked about this many times and it’s not emotional.

    ‘It is not an emotional thing, it’s a principle thing. We’ve talked about this situation many, many years before this even happened. I said as a warrior, as a champion, as a leader, as a ruler, I want to go out on my shield. If I’m talking about going in and killing a man, I respect the same way. I abide by the same principal of receiving.

    So I told my team to never, ever, no matter what it may look like, to never throw the towel in with me because I’m a special kind. I still had five rounds left. No matter what it looked like, I was still in the fight.’

    Breland is a Brooklyn-born Olympic gold medalist who finished his professional career with 35 wins and three losses on his record. His final fight before retirement came in a unanimous decision victory against Rick Haynes.

    Former US fighter Andre Ward was among those defending Breland’s call to end the fight early.

    He tweeted: ‘I respect Mark Breland. We need more trainers like him in the sport of boxing. I stand with you Coach.’

    Wilder produced a disappointing display as he was roundly beaten by Fury and he has since blamed the referee and his own ringwalk costume for his lacklustre display.

    The American wore a black and red armoured body suit with a matching mask and crown, weighing a total of 40lbs, as he made his way to the squared circle for his second bout with Fury at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday.

    While there had been some talk of a unification bout for Fury with Anthony Joshua, it appears the focus will now be a third installment of Wilder-Fury.

    ‘The rematch is definitely going to happen,’ Wilder added to The Athletic. ‘We’re going to get it on. I want to get right back to it.’

    Fury, as the winner of the second bout, would be entitled to a 60/40 percentage split of all the money on the line for the fight, plus the earnings from PPV and ticket sales.

    Source: Dailymail.co.uk