FORMER Africa and Commonwealth lightheavyweight champion, Joe Lasisi and four other Nigerian boxing legends will be honoured on Sunday at the GOtv Boxing Night, scheduled to hold at the Indoor Sports of the National Stadium, Lagos.
The professional boxing contest tagged the GOtv Boxing Night has been sanctioned by the Nigeria Boxing Board of Control (NBB of C), with the national featherweight title clash between Dare 'Fighting Machine' Oyewole and Waidi 'Scoro' Usman serving as the main bout of the night
Lasisi, who also lost the WBA belt to American Virgil Hill in 1989 will be honoured on the night alongside the former WBC light heavyweight title contender and former Commonwealth champion, Obisia Nwankpa; former Commonwealth super flyweight champion Ray Amao; former Commonwealth bantamweight champion, Hogan Jimoh and ex-Olympian, Jerry Okorodudu.
Listed for the undercards are the national heavyweight champion Adewale 'Tiger' Abbey versus Tope 'Young' Ogunshakin; David ‘Lucky Boy’ Ekpeyong versus Muhammed 'Fearless' Tijani (in the featherweight category); Chijioke 'Painless' Nigige versus Sunday 'Capo' Olalekan (middleweight category); Stanley 'Edo Boy' Johnson versus Saheed 'Happy Boy' Olayiwola (light Welterweight) and Dele 'Lagelu' Adeleke versus Rasheed 'Afonja Warrior' Abolaji in the light middleweight division.
The event, which is being sponsored by GOtv, Custodian Life Assurance Plc, Paragonis Multimedia Productions and Zetaweb, is aimed at reviving professional boxing in the country.
According to the General Manager Sales and Marketing of Multichoice, subscriber services providers for Gotv said that more Nigerian boxing greats will be honoured at future editions of the Gotv boxing night.
The six-bout thriller will also witness the first live telecast of Nigerian boxing recent memory.
Caption: Joe Lasisi (left) with the 2004 Olympian Issac Ekpo.
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