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Emulate Azumah and set your own standards – Rawlings tells Dogboe
WBO Int. super bantamweight champ — Isaac Dogboe (2nd left) pose with ex-President J.J. Rawlings during the visit

Emulate Azumah and set your own standards – Rawlings tells Dogboe

Former Ghana President, Jerry John Rawlings, has urged undefeated boxer, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe (16-0, 10 KOs), to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Azumah Nelson by setting his own standards and targets in order to become a great champion.

Despite rising to number five in the latest WBO junior featherweight ratings and with a chance of taking a shot at the world champion, Jesse Magdaleno, Dogboe has instead chosen to fight once or twice more before stepping up to the big plate. And it is a decision that the former president rates highly.

Mr. Rawlings who, as he did with Azumah back in the day, has personally mentored and supported 22-year-old Dogboe with advise and even financially, was speaking when Dogboe and some of his cousins from Germany paid a courtesy call to present the WBO International super-bantamweight title he won last month in New Zealand.

The former Ghanaian leader said limiting one’s self to the standards of the world did not usually result in great achievements and reiterated as a move in the right direction, the decision by Team Dogboe to temporarily hold onto the world title dream.

“It’s not over, you’ve got a long way to go. Winning the world title may not be that far away but holding on to it for as long as possible is the ultimate challenge and that’s where you may need something from me, from the heart, from within,” Mr. Rawlings cautioned young Dogboe.

“There is something I noticed about Azumah that whenever he was alone, he goes to fight in the opponent’s territory, the whole stadium will be packed against him. While other people derive strength from the other way round, he derives strength from being alone and that is what I refer to as setting your own standards,” President Rawlings explained.

“Not many people set their own standards by the way, a lot of us allow the environment to set standards for us, that’s something I didn’t accept.

“I didn’t think some of the standards I ran into were good enough for me so I used to set my own standards,that’s the way it has to be,” Rawlings advised.

 

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