Its Chief Executive Officer, Jenkins Alumona, said the star prize money which was formerly a million naira (=N= 1 Million Naira) was increased to One point five million naira (=N= 1.5 Million Naira) because this month's edition was tagged a special edition, hence the reason to make the event a memorable and exciting day for the pugilists.
Alumona, said the Gotv Boxing Night had really added value to professional boxing in Nigeria as two former amateur boxers, Abiola Fijabi and Otto Joseph, who recently turned professional, were beneficiaries of the star prize of one million naira (=N= 1.5 Million Naira) each for being rated as the best boxers in one of the Gotv Boxing Night competitions.
General Manager of Multi-choice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, says the competition has uplifted the standard of professional boxing in Nigeria through their Digital Satellite Television, DSTV, platform.
Mabutho, who emphasized that forty- seven African countries would have the opportunity of watching exciting boxing tournament, said the gesture would help drive boxing promoters and experts across the world to pitch their tents with Nigeria's boxers whose outstanding performance in the competition could earn them foreign contracts in Europe, Asia and America.
He is optimistic that the tournament would drive a lot of their subscribers to keep patronizing them based on their quality sporting programmes apart from boxing, said the spirit of giving and receiving attached to Christmas was one of the reasons of increasing the competition's star prize to one point five million naira (=N= 1.5 Million Naira), .
The 5th edition of Gotv Boxing Night is billed for Saturday, twenty- sixth of December,2015 at the Sportshall of the National Stadium, Surulere.
Meanwhile, a prolific Lightweight boxer, Abiola Fijabi, says he is unperturbed by the intimidating records of his opponent,Sodiq Hammed who is currently ranked number one in the Lightweight category.
Fijabi, a gold medalist at the EKO 2012 Games and a former winner of one million naira of the tournament, said the achievement of Sodiq Hammed, had spurred him to re-double his training programmes in order to outwit him since it would boost his records and also project him positively on the continent. adding that the rein of Hammed as the champion of Lightweight had scared away boxers.
On the One point five million naira (=N= 1.5 Million Naira) star prize money for the best boxer of the fight billed for Saturday, 26th of December, 2015, at the Sportshall of the National Stadium, Fijabi, said the money could serve as a distraction as his priority was to train effectively and also to work according to the dictate of his coaches.
He thanked the management of Gotv Nigeria for delving into professional Boxing which has motivated a lot of amateur boxers to turn professional.
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