Ayittey Powers dares Joshua Clottey

AFTER emerging bruised from his last outing, albeit controversially, super welterweight Ayittey Powers is threading on yet another interesting adventure. The national super welterweight champion has flared up over what he deems an unacceptable delay on the part of his opponent, Joshua Clottey, to sign up for their fight on the maiden bill of Landmark Promotions.

Apparently fed up with the uncertain clouds hanging over the fight, Ayittey Powers has labelled his prospective opponent a coward, and a woman too, running away from a man he knows he cannot stand in the fistic business, but yet refusing to acknowledge this fact.

“If he is the man that he claims to be, let him go ahead and sign his side of the contract to erase any doubts over the fight,” Powers has dared Clottey who holds the ABU welterweight belt.

The two, Clottey and Powers, have been paired up on the maiden bill of Landmark Promotions in a catchweight contest scheduled for the Globe Cinema, come December 6.

What presently provides any uncertainty over the occurrence of the bout is Clottey’s missing signature from the contract document, a situation which Powers claims is not providing him with the necessary frame of mind to focus on his training regiment and the fight proper.

Powwers with eight fights so far in the paid ranks is 5-2-1, four of the victories coming through the short route.

In fact, the only blemish on his fight record was suffered at the hands of Benin’s Victor Kpodenou only this month after the GBA had reversed a controversial verdict handed in the Ghanbaian’s favour.

But yet he remains undaunted and refuses to accept defeat, and tells Clottey that “if you want to taste what Victor went through, then sign up for the fight.”

The grudge battle, when it happens, will confine each boxer to his right status and settle scores between them over which of them is truly superior in the pugilistic game.

Joshua Clottey is 16-1 after 17 fights, with his only loss coming through a disqualification against Argentina’s Carlos Baltimore in a WBC international fight.

Dubbed “the three strong stars,” the fight is one of a nine-bout bill led by the interesting battle between ABU middleweight champion, James Toney and number three contender to the ABC middleweight title, Jean Thomas of Cote d’Ivoire.

If the Powers-Clottey bout excites, then the Toney-Thomas clash is appetising and boxing fans can ony pray for the early arrival of the fight date. Other fights on the bill include Ange “Baby Face” Adjaho of Benin v Sarfo Tyson in an international lightweight contest; Abdulai ‘classic’ Amadu v Elol Cyrile (Cote d’Ivoire) in an international super featherweight contest; Malik Jabir v Ben Tutu in a featherweight challenge contest.

Welterweights Philip Kotey and Ishmael Tetteh meet in a challenge contest; Alex Brew takes on Baddoo Akueteh in another lightweight contest, while Mustapha Appiah meets Alfred Odai in a featherweight contest.

WBF bantamweight champion, Joseph Agbeko will take on an opponent to be named later.