Azumah used boxing to market, unify Ghana - Prof. Botchway
A professor of history at the University of Cape Coast, De-Valera Nym Botchway, has described boxing legend, Azumah Nelson, as a true champion who placed the nation on the international sporting map during his illustrious career.
Prof. Botchway lauded the former three-time world champion for his splendid performance in the ring and for becoming the most successful African boxer of all-time and the only boxer from the continent to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, an exclusive class of the sport’s finest practitioners.
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| D.K. Poison won the world featherweight title in 1975 in Los Angeles |
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| Marvellous Nana Yaw Konadu won world title in Mexico in 1990 |
| Ike "Bazooka" Quartey won the wold middleweight title in 1994 in France. |
| Alfred "Cobra" Kotey won the world title in 1995 in Britain. |
| In 2001, in Accra, Joseph King Kong Agbeko won a WBF title. In 2007 won IFB Bantamweight title |
| April 1958, Roy Ankrah aka 'The Black Flash' won the British Commonwealth Title |