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WBC Surprises Ghana’s D.K Poison with new title belt

SuperSports24 4 years ago 2 min read

D.K Poison made history as Ghana’s first-ever world boxing champion 45 years ago when he won the WBC Featherweight title.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) has rewarded D.K Poison with a new title belt in an attempt to help the former champion relieve the 1975 victory moments when defeated Mexican Reuben Olivares after 15 rounds of boxing.

His victory came after the referees had announced the split points decision in his favour. The new title belt has all the pictures of D.K. Poison, President of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, and that of former WBC president Jose Suleiman.

The special gesture from the World Boxing Council (WBC) was handed over to Mr. Alex Ntiamoah who received it on behalf of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA).

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Its been 45 years after D.K. Poison’s $45k got stuck with the government of Ghana but President Nana Akufo Addo has settled the amount owed the former champion to close the case on it.

According to Alex Ntiamoah- Boakye, Nana Addo would be presenting the new title belt to D.K Poison soon and that, the belt arrived before D.K. Poison’s $45k was paid. The delay in the presentation according to him was the result of the President’s busy schedules.

The Ghana Boxing Federation boss revealed that the Box Office has been one of the key promoters of African boxers, and Ghanaian boxers have gotten a fair share of exposer through them. The latest Ghanaian boxers who got a bite of the efforts of Box Office are Bukom Banku aka Braimah Kamoko and Bastir Samir they held whose bout at the Bukom Boxing Arena.

Ntiamoah- Boakye also called on Ghanaian boxers to continue to work hard and push themselves beyond their limits to succeed. He believes it’s through hard work that, they can make it into the WBC ratings which would open up chances for more title fights and possible wins.

Ghana has been the home of the WBC titles for many years and the likes of Prof. Azumah Nelson and Nana Yaw Konadu inked their names into history books as other winners apart from D.K Poison