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One for the album: Ghana's only world champ, Richard Oblitey Commey with action movie star, Wesley Snipes at Madison Square Garden. Ringside,

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We spent the all weekend in Uganda 🇺🇬 discovering the new World Champion in making. Prince Muwonge Latibu the dancing Master. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was part of us Promoter mwesigwa, UPBF and Other media houses 🏠 in Uganda. We are the

Dodzi vrs Dodzi in Dzodze: it's fight day after Dodzi Kemeh and Frank Dodzi both made weight for their IBF Africa title fight later this evening in Dzodze in the Volta Region of 🇬🇭 ghana

“I fought for passion, for the love of boxing and for a goal: to make history and to leave a legacy. I achieved what no Mexican has done.”
Juan Manuel Márquez is the last legend of Mexican boxing.

Bulgarian boxer dies while fighting under cousin’s identity

Boris Stanchov, the deceased, had been using his cousin Isus’ ID and fighting under his name.

The news broke yesterday that 21-year-old Bulgarian boxer Isus Velichkov died following a first-round TKO loss to Ardit Murja. As the boxing world mourned another in the growing pile of tragedies in this sport, a bizarre detail emerged: it wasn’t Isus in the ring. The real Isus, very much alive, revealed afterwards that his cousin Boris Stanchov had been using his ID and fighting under his name for the past year with Velichkov’s consent.

Stanchov, who stumbled back and collapsed in a delayed reaction following a jab, reportedly died of a heart attack, suggesting that he had an existent medical condition before stepping into the ring. His manager claims he had no clue of the deception despite Boris reportedly looking nothing like the man he was pretending to be. Only Isus and Stanchov’s coach appeared to be in on the scheme, which Boris said was to ensure that he had no losses on his own record.

Stanchov went 0-6 as Velichkov before losing his life this past Saturday. If he was also using Velichkov’s medicals, that would explain how he was permitted to step into the ring despite being in no condition to do so.

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Former world champ, Joshua 'The Hitter' Clottey continues his push for a rematch against Manny Pacquaio with a dominant round 9 TKO of 26 year old Azizi Mponda of Tanzania in the headline fight of Box Office Sports Promotions' collaborative fight night with the Odwira festival of the Akuapem people of Eastern Region of Ghana

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Former world title challenger, Maxwell Awuku returns vrs Magnesi in Rome, Italy on October 26. At stake is the WBC international super featherweight title

“Daniel Dubois has never tasted power like mine," said the 31-year-old from Accra. "He thinks he is going to walk in and I will be on the backfoot. Once I start landing he will realise he is very wrong.

“I am not like other opponents. People get in the ring with Daniel and get scared. The difference is that I see Daniel for what he really is. He is not a scary man, he is a scared boy.”

EBENEZER TETTEH INSISTS he will not be intimidated by the hulking presence of Daniel Dubois in the opposite corner when the pair collide with the vacant Commonwealth heavyweight title at stake on Friday September 27

Former WBA Pan Africa champ, Richmond Djarbeng travels again in pursuit of another title, Professional Boxing Council (PBC) World Championship belt against Lee McAllister at the Assassin Health & Fitness Village, Home Farm Road, Aberdeen- Scotland on October 5

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On this day, 21 September in 1975, David Kotei famously known as D.K. Poison became the first from Ghana to win a boxing a world title, securing a split points decision, 144-145, 144-143, 143-142 over then highly rated Mexican, Ruben Olivares after 15 rounds for the WBC featherweight championship at the Forum, Inglewood, California, USA

Fredrick 'Okunka' Lawson returns for a welterweight 6-rounder versus Carlos Winston Velazquez at the Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Florida, USA on October 4

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Happy Birthday to our Head of General Duties, Zebra Mando Ssenyange!

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Muwonge Latibu to fight title fight next in Uganda 🇺🇬 we need more determined fighters like this young man to make boxing 🥊 moving forward

Ghana super featherweight champion, Michael 'One Bullet' Ansah will take on former world champion, Terry Flanagan in his first fight outside Ghana since 2014 at 's event at Ulster Hall in Belfast, Ireland on October 11

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“Daniel is speaking a lot about fights with David Price or Dereck Chisora. He is definitely overlooking me. It reminds me of when Anthony Joshua was going into the fight with Andy Ruiz and kept talking about fighting Wilder and Fury.

"He got punished for overlooking his opponent and I will punish Daniel Dubois.

“I am going to England to get revenge for my countryman Richard Lartey. Richard gave Daniel hell but couldn’t get the job done – I will finish what Richard Lartey started.”

EBENEZER TETTEH INSISTS he will punish Daniel Dubois for looking beyond the job in hand, while also vowing to inflict revenge on behalf of his countryman Richard Lartey.

Tetteh travels to the Royal Albert Hall from Ghana for a Commonwealth heavyweight title assignment on Friday September 27 encouraged by the problems the larger-than-life Lartey presented young star in the making Dubois at Wembley in April.

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Recap: WBO junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia (34-0, 27 KOs) chased down and stopped #13 WBO Patrick Allotey (40-4, 30 KOs) in the 4th round on Saturday night on DAZN at the Dignity Health Sports Park, in Carson, California.

After being foiled with the mobility and slick head movement from Allotey in the first two rounds, Munguia, 22, caught up with him in round 3 to drop him twice. In the 4th, Allotey went down for a third time. The referee Jack Reiss then stopped the fight. The official time of the stoppage was at 2:18 of round 4.

The size and power difference between the two fighters was too much for Allotey. Munguia looked like a middleweight inside the ring with a welterweight.

After the fight, Munguia said he wasn’t certain whether he would move up in weight to middleweight. Tonight was supposed to be Munguia’s last match at 154, but ease with which he won the fight gave him second thoughts. If Munguia’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions can more fighters like Allotey for him to bludgeon, he’ll do well.

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My opinion 16th September 2019

*WHY I MENTION FUFA WHENEVER I TALK ABOUT THE MISS ALLOCATION OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS MEANT FOR ALL SPORTS*

First of all the Law provides for plaintiff versus Respondent and in some cases you have more than one respondents, for example if Hassan stole Richard's phone and gave it to Juma, that means Juma becomes the beneficiary of the root or theft therefore this will call Richard as plaintiff versus Hassan as 1st respondent and Juma as 2nd respondent . So in our struggle to make case of the unjustified allocation of government funds across various federations, the body that allocates the funds becomes the 1st respondent and the beneficiaries like FUFA become the 2nd and so on .... respondents

*Why does government fund sports to now a tune of 26.6bn shillings in the financial year 2019/20?*

Because the sports are public good , the govt supports them so that they can get the basics such as nurturing talent, organising competitions, establishing noticeable addresses, establishing basic functioning administrative structures,etc etc. With this basic support from government and once utilised properly then the federation would develop capacity to tap into private sector funding ... best way to look at it is a sick person needs blood to gain energy to move to the next level likewise the federations require this government funds to develop the required capacity to tap or attract private sector funding or sponsorships

*What's the problem with the government funds as approved through the budget 2019?*
Lack of funding policy at NCS level that is known to all federations and agreeable to all federations. In the beginning and in the corridors the following arguments were made in as to why some federations get more than the other;
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*POPULARITY OF THE SPORT* this was marjory fronted by the Football colleagues, their argument was that since their games attract so many fans, so they impact on so many youths hence they needed more funding! This was watered down when boxing started holding its championship in My opinion 15th September 2019

- *SPORTS EXCELLENCE*
another argument to determine how funds were being allocated to various federations was on account of sports excellence, surprisingly much as almost 70 percent of the budget goes to FUFA but their best level of sports excellence was to qualify from group stages of Africa cup of nations and only to lose before reaching the quarterfinals.... Ladies and gentlemen sports excellence does not mean qualifying from group stage ... No No No sports excellence means competing in regional games, continental games and world games and subsequently coming back with either trophies, cups, or medals. That is sports excellence, unfortunately for FUFA since it was established as a sports Federation it has never won neither a continental or world championship save for jubilation after qualifying from group stages ... where as sports like boxing , athletics, basketball, etc etc and of late swimming have won medals at continental and world championships but still remain the poorly or not funded sports Federations by the government of Uganda

- *LOBBYING*
after our friends in FUFA finding a hard time to justify the kind of financial support they get from the sports budget, they resorted to LOBBYING, they say they are the masters of lobbying, they lobby from state house, from President M7, from the Parliament and the Ministry of education and sports... that's why they get more money than the rest! *This is a total manifestation of either government break down in terms of structures or the extreme incompetence of national council of sports* the federations are not supposed to communicate directly with the ministries or any other government entity otherwise the establishment of the body called NCS would have been a waste of time, the job of NCS is to create linkages between Federations and the government! Our job as federations is strictly to operate with government through NCS. Meaning we submit our requests, requirements, challenges etc to NCS and subsequently NCS forwards to government and is a similar way that's how government communicates back to us as federations.... if we are to go by the lobbying argument as is done by FUFA, then there wont be any further relevance of NCS and we as federations will be queuing up at parliament, finance, state house etc etc to lobby for government funds.... because we have respected the functionality of thses established structures like the NCS is maybe the reason we getting peanuts or none as sports federations

- *UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS*
after our colleagues from FUFA and NETBALL further finding it impossible to justify the funds , another argument came up, this was in the last financial year, and the argument was that we need more money because netball has qualified for netball world cup and football has qualified for the african cup of nations , so the 10bn went to fufa and approx. 2bn to netball this was for financial year 2018/19 but surprisingly even in the financial year 2019/20 the same amounts of money are still being given to these federations and one might wonder if we still have these federations going to compete in the net ball world cup and African cup of nations this year?

- *PRIORITY Vs NON PRIORITY SPORTS*
this has also been an argument brought forward that some sports have been highlighted as priority sports and others not , that meant that the priority sports would recieve more attention in terms of funding, accessibility to training facilities, more involvement in competitions both local and international etc etc BUT surprisingly a priority sport like boxing gets only 2% of the whole budget meant for sports, the priority sport of boxing has no regular access to the national gym for training, when competitions are due the full teams are left behind and quarter teams are taken.. *so one wonders what does being a priority sport mean?*

So ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, the reason we talk about about FUFA in our struggles in as far as allocation of government funds meant for all sports is concerned, it's because FUFA is the highest beneficiary of the injustice!

I remain yours truly

Muhangi moses
President UBF
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Tyson Fury won a dramatic, tough fight against a brave and dangerous Otto Wallin.

Many fans did not expect the fight to be this good but this only proves the heavyweight division is back at the top with great contenders!