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Ministry to revive Boxing League
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, has announced plans to revive the national amateur boxing league.
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In an interview with GNA Sports, the Minister disclosed that his outfit was in discussions with the Ghana Amateur Boxing Federation (GABF) to develop a strategy for the competion.
“I am in discussions with the GABF national boxing league once again. And we shall see how we can have it every week, just like we have in football to unearth more talents and more boxers and fans,” the Minister said.
According to Nii Lante Vanderpuye, the idea was to help recruit the best talents across the country into the national amateur boxing team, the Black Bombers.
“When we get the best (from the league) they would form the core of the national team, and the national team will never be broken. The national team members will also fight in the league so if you beat a member of the national team your chances of joining the team will increases, so we continue that way until we have a set of people who form the core of our future boxing squad” he contended.
Almost all of Ghana’s past world champions in boxing, with the exception of D.K. Poison, were products of the Black Bombers.
The minister, however, called on the various television stations in the country to come on board to support in the promotion of the boxing league.
“We will ask television stations to support boxing. Once we have the television stations, the other sponsors will come in. Television is a platform to attract and encourage other sponsors to come in and make boxing bright,” he stressed.
— GNA
