After the exploits of former WBC super featherweight champion, and Ghana’s boxing professor, Barimah Azumah Nelson and Ike “Bazooka” Quartey, Ghana has run short of a world champion.
Comatose, the GBA has now drawn revival plans to primarily create awareness of boxing in other regions and also to reverse the slump in besetting the sport.
Last weekend, the Ghana Boxing Authority outdoored a retractable boxing ring and presented speed balls and other boxing equipment to the boxing clubs in Cape Coast concurrently, earlier in the day the sector minister, Edward Osei-Kwaku (MP) inaugurated the Cape Coast Boxing committee and Patrons club who together with GBA would work hard to maintain the level as well create the awareness of boxing.
The deputy minister for Youth and Sports Joe Aggrey who was very elated for the night novelty told the Network Herald that the ministry will work hand in hand with the GBA to bring boxing to the pedestal it used to be.
Also a call was made to the ministry of Youth and Sports to reappraise its position on boxing by getting the necessary infrastructure in place. Mr. Doe, chairman of the central region football association said Cape Coast and other regional capitals abound in boxing talents and that the ministry of Youth and Sports should work tirelessly to ensure boxing is accorded the same attention given football in the national sports plans.
He also tasked the ministry to aid the GBA to encourage and promote the sport to turn the country’s interested juvenals to world champions to bring honours to Ghana.
GBA vice president Moses Foh Amoaning described last Saturday’s event as very remarkable in the annals of Boxing in Cape Coast. He looked exalted when in January 2000 the GBA launched its comprehensive corporate strategic plan encompassing short, medium and long-term detailed plans of action to actualize it.
He also averred this outreach programme to the central region employing Cape Coast as the spearhead, is only one step in a chain of modest but successes chalked over the short term period of implementing their shared vision for the promotion of Professional boxing in Ghana. Their destination would be Kumasi and Takoradi.
The night was spiced up with a boxing tournament dubbed AKOTOWUARABEM NITE. Before the bouts a minute’s silence was observed for the late Robert Massimo a strong advocate for promoting and unearthing talents. Armeley Turkson and Ayorkor Chavez thrilled fans in a three-round exhibition bout. The main bout Ali Alabi from Oguaa boxing club who looked na?ve in the first round later outclassed his opponent from Accra Imoro Bozo. Alabi sent Bozo down twice in the second and fifth round to wrap up the fight.
