Ray Narh not coming down for Ghana fight

By Prince Dornu-Leiku

Ray Narh will not come down to Ghana for the purported March 6 boxing showdown put together by Box Office Promotions, The Scribes can reveal. The 1998 Commonwealth gold medallist says the promoters of the Ghana fight have not done enough to convince him to come down for the fight. “Those guys in Ghana are not my promoters and there’s no way my promoters in America will let me come and fight in Ghana. They should stop telling Ghanaians cheap lies,” Ray Narh stated in a correspondence from his base in the US.

Narh, known as The Emperor, was initially billed to fight Ugandan Maliki Kinyogoli in Accra for the vacant WBC / Pan African Lightweight title last December 26. But the former NABC (North American Boxing Commission) Lightweight champion says the deal for that fight was not even finalized before other problems necessitated its cancellation.

“I have not talked to them and maybe another fighter called Ray Narh will be fighting, not me. They are not my promoters to start with and they cannot pay me minimum of what I get here (US). They keep saying that there is no money in Ghana,” The Emperor, 23-1 (20Kos) also now resident in Pennsylvania in the US added.

The boxer who has not fought in Ghana since defeating Alex Brew way back on Boxing Day 2003, has however not ruled out the possibility of fighting in the country again. Certain conditions however have to be met for Ray Narh to make the comeback possible because he makes a living from fighting. “It will be nice to fight in Ghana again but not when things are not put right and there's no big money involved for me and my promoters. They have plans for me and I’m sticking to those plans,” The Emperor has said.