An Ibadan born boxer, Ayanfe Adeoye, this Saturday at Teslim Balogun stadium will slug it out with Ola Adebakin in Six rounds national light weight category.
The fight dubbed “The Return Of The Titans” will be the second professional bout of Adeoye popularly know as “Battleboy” in national light weight category.
It could be recalled that Battleboy won his first international professional fight against Ghanaian boxer, Emmanuel Allotey in far away Ghana on May 1st, 2021.
He won by round 5 knockout in a six rounds bout that came up at Lebanon house Accra, Ghana.
Adeoye, a young talented boxer aged 20 years, while speaking with journalists said he wish to repeat the Ghana feat here in Nigeria.
He said with the hard work through training and dedication that won him the Ghana fight will repeat itself here in Nigeria.
According to him, “with the level of concentration, training and prayer, he is optimistic of coming out victoriously, and that he promise to dedicate the victory to Almighty God and as usual to Nigeria as his country.
“My ambition is to make boxing a number one sport in Nigeria. I want to be a great example to the younger ones that you can still be a boxer and be a decent, reliable and responsible person. It’s a sport and not for ‘thugs’ as some people perceive. And most importantly, I want to make boxing great in Nigeria like other greatest Nigerian born boxer.
“I am looking up to the likes of the greatest Muhammed Alli, Lennox Lewis and Sugar Ray Leonard and my brother and a role model, ‘The Champ’ Anthony Joshua”.
Speaking on boxing development in Nigeria, the battleboy said he won’t really put all the blame on the government as government alone cannot do everything but appeal to government to also pay attention to boxing like football because there are lots of potentials and talents in boxing as well.
“I won’t really like to put it all on the government. Even corporate brands can come in and sponsor stand out boxers. It doesn’t have to be financially, but it could be boxing gears, supplement and other training facilities”.
