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Sports News of Thursday, 19 October 2000

Source: Accra Mail

Kofi Jantuah wins

Ghanaian welterweight Kofi Jantuah based in the United States has won a third round knock-out over O'Jay Abrahams in Doncaster, a suburb of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

A sharp upper cut in the final minutes of the third round put Abrahams down for the third time in the ten-round scheduled fight.

The dramatic end was as a result of tremendous punching by Janthah who raised his record to 22 wins, no loss, with 12 knock-outs.

Earlier in the first and second rounds, Kofi Jantuah had decked his opponent to the canvas.