Big fights today

The Accra Sports Stadium will be the venue for this Friday’s eagerly awaited boxing bonanza, which will include two championship fights. Of the seven bouts scheduled for the evening’s entertainment is veteran Smith Odoom’s clash with Raymond Narh that really catches the eye, as champion Odoom aspires to maintain his hold on the National and West African Super-featherweight Championship.

Although it is the first time the two Bukom based fighters would meet inside the ring, the 12-round contest will ensure the culmination of a fierce rivalry which has seen a volley of verbal abuse with both claiming to be the superior fighter. As such the event has been aptly dubbed “Put up or shut up,” with the organisers, Prince & Baseline International Promotions Syndicate, in conjunction with Sportnet England, challenging the two to settle their differences in the ring or forever hold their peace.

Another ferocious encounter will see Ben Ankrah defend his National and West Africa Lightweight Championship against Ben Neequaye, with “Congo Soldier” Ankrah looking to build on his unanimous points victory over Kwabena Sarfo at “the Night of No Return” last month. On the same bill “Golden Boy” Osumanu Akaba’s 10 round featherweight contest with Benjamin Cutu promises more than its fair share of excitement, while in the international middleweight clash, ABU Champion James “Hot Ice” Tonney will be looking to keep his cool against Kumasi based Sechigbe Naturim.

Another prodigy of Ghana’s boxing Mecca, Bukom, who will be competing in the international Super-Middleweight class is Briamah Kamoko who looks set to dispose of Nigerian Boko George. In the Lightweight class the eccentric Alex Brew will hope to live up to his “Wild” tag as he confronts Mohammed Billal from the “Believer’s Club” stable in a contest to be fought over six rounds, with Abdulai Amidu and the “Falcon” Imurana Bozo concluding the night’s bill in their eight round featherweight showdown.