By Michael Amakor | November 29, 2013
Welcome to the only website dedicated to African Boxing. We follow former African Championship belt holders in their campaigns for world titles.
On the upside boxing appears to be thriving in Ghana and particularly in South Africa, both which have produced dominant champions like Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey and Gerry Coetzee to name a few respectively, other countries like Nigeria have had sporadic bouts of boxing fever in the sixties with legends like Dick Tiger and Hogan Kid Bassey only to see that momentum flame out.
On the downside there appears to be no real push to crown AFRICAN boxing champions with the prestige similar to the European Union, and whenever there are fights you never get to see or hear about them. Most countries in Africa also do not have reigning champions.
The only time we get to see Africans boxing, is during an international competition like the olympic or the commonwealth games, however many of these olympians winners are virtually left to their own devices in navigating the tortuous route to a world title.
This phenomenon is unbelievable as there is so much potential from the teaming mass of humanity in the continent and there are so many street fights that you would think that various championships would be organized. We need your support in changing this by contributing articles, and sponsoring fighters in their quest to become champions.
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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.
