By Prince Dornu-Leiku
With his life long dream now here, Ghana’s Osumanu Adama has sworn to wrestle away the IBF Middleweight title when he fights incumbent champion David Geale on March 7 this year at the Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Adama whose camp failed to get their desired wish for the bout to be moved from Geale’s home country of Australia, has vowed to claim the title to fill the current void that Ghana has no boxing world champion.
“I’m ready, I’m fit, I’m training and nothing is going to stop me from winning this title. I am surely going to win this title and fighting him in his hometown will not affect me. This is what I’ve been waiting for all my life, no way I’m losing it now, no way,” Adama nicknamed Machine Gun told Ghana based newspaper ALL SPORTS exclusively from his US base yesterday.
The contract for the fight was signed just a couple of days ago under the auspices of CFC Promotions who handle the Ghanaian boxer.
Adama (20-2, 15 KOs), is therefore calling on his countrymen to support him with their prayers and hopefully on March 7, precisely 6 am when Ghanaians will be just getting out of bed the morning after the nation’s independence day, he will defeat Geale (25-1, 15 KOs), to give the nation a new world champion.
“Tell Ghanaians and my fans that they should pray with their support as they do for me always and I thank them for that.
“I’m also grateful to my promoters CFC Promotions for everything they are doing for me and I promise to win for them,” Machine Gun has confidently pledged.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
