GOtv Boxing Night: Boxers Talk Tough

With barely 48 hours to the second edition of the GOtv Boxing Night, billed for 15 March, at the Indoor Sports Hall, National Stadium, boxers on the card are already talking tough.

 

Reigning National Heavyweight champion, Adewale ‘Tiger’ Abbey, who will be defending is staking his crown against Tope ‘Young’ Ogunshinasi, has vowed that his opponent will not last the distance when they go in the ring for their 12-round title bout on Sunday.

 

Abbey is hinging his optimism on his vast experience, having held the title for close to a decade, but for about a decade. Ogunshinasi, however, said he has trained hard and will dethrone his opponent.

 

Ogunshinasi, who claims to be much younger and fitter than the title holder, said these attributes put him at a great advantage to record a Knock Out (KO).

 

Similar fighting talk is coming from the duo of Waidi “Skoro” Usman, who will fight Alfred “Ahwor” Quaye of Ghana for the West African Featherweight title bout. Usman, the National Featherweight champion, boasted that he will show his opponent that Nigeria has always been Ghana’s master in sports. It is a claim rejected by Quaye, who has vowed to button up Usman’s lips with punches.

 

Jamiu ‘Rotor’ Animashaun, who will trade punches with another veteran, Wahab ‘Hammer’ Adebisi in the Light Middle weight category said he is not bothered by the record of his opponent and will dismiss him within a short time. Adebisi, however, laughed off the boast, saying he will teach Animasaun boxing lessons.

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Olaide ‘Fijaborn’ Fijabi, who will be making his professional debut having dominated the amateur cadre for a period said he is raring to make a winning debut, when he stands toe-to-toe with Waliu ‘Oganla’ Arogundade in the Light Welter weight category.

 

Fijabi, a National Sports Festival (NSF) veteran in a chat with journalists, Thursday, said he is confident of defeating his opponent because he is being tutored by Coach Joe Mensah, a boxing coach considered as one of the best in Nigeria and indeed Africa.

 

Oganla described Fijabi’s boast as wishful, as he has been a professional boxer years before Fijabi thought of becoming an amateur boxer.

 

Sunday ‘Capo’ Olalekan and Tonbraye ‘Tornado’ Christmas, who will be doing battle in the Light Middle weight categort, took their fight to the studio of Murhi International Television, MITV, where they were guests on a sports programme. Both charged at each other and had to be restrained. Christmas, a Corporal in the Nigerian Army, said he will show up Olalekan as a bloody civilian and teach him to respect soldiers. Olalekan dismissed his boast as empty, saying his opponent’s military background will have no bearing on their contest in the ring.

 

Another debutant, Ottoh ‘Joe Boy’ Joseph, who will confront Kehinde ‘Ijoba’ Badmus said his mission is to retire his opponent from boxing.

 

GOtv Boxing Night, a six-bout professional contest, is part of the efforts headlined by pay-TV company, GOtv, to revive the sport. The company is joined in this by Custodian Life Assurance, MultiChoice, SuperSport, Complete Sports, KSquare Security, newsbreak.ng and Brilla FM.

 

Sanctioned by the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control, the event which kicks off at 5pm, will be broadcast live on SuperSport.