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Boxing News of Saturday, 1 June 2013

Source: www.sportsinghana.com

Algerian Dahou for warm-up fight in Ghana

Before he takes to the ring in September to fight for the WBC Intercontinental Youth Welterweight, Algerian pugilist, Nasreddine Dahou has earned a warm-up date against Sani Yidana Kugblie in Ghana on June 25, www.sportsinghana.com can report.

Upstart Dahou, 6-0, 5 KOs has been earmarked for big ambitions in his professional boxing career and according to his Ghana based matchmaker, bringing him down to Accra is to give him all the training and support necessary to achieve his target of claiming the WBC Intercontinental youth belt.

“He is a very good boxer with great promise and the aim is to prepare him for world title by the end of next year. The WBC Youth title is a good step but we are bringing him to Accra to refresh and train him in readiness for September,” Matchmaker Solomon Otoo Lartey explained.

In the event, Dahou will face Kugblie in an 8-round contets at the Seconds Out Boxing Gym in the heart of Accra on June 25 as he prepares to face Spaniard Eloy Iglesias (10-2-1, 1KO) in Algeria for the WBC Intercontinental Youth Welterweight belt.