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Boxing rave wins N1m in competition

Fijabi, a second time winner of the prize, defeated Ekekpo in the sixth of the 12- round  West African light welterweight title fight.
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Boxing rave,

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The  Nigerian boxer displayed good skills of boxing at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos at the sixth edition of the GOtv Boxing Night.

Fijabi, a second time winner of the prize, defeated Ekekpo in the sixth of the 12- round  West African light welterweight title fight.

In his words, "I am not yet satisfied. I feel like punching on and on. Ekekpo couldn't take my  punches. Whoever is holding the African light welterweight title, I, Fijaborn is coming  to claim it" he said.

In other big fight, Nigeria’s Abolaji ‘Afonja Warrior’ Rasheed knocked out Adjei Sowah of Ghana in the third of their 12-round contest to win the West African middleweight title.

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In the first fight decided, a graduate of the of the GOtv Boxing  Next Gen Search, Michael "Show" Rolland, was knocked out in the fifth round  of their national lightweight challenge bout by Nwoye "Lion" Prince.

Another product of the GOtv Boxing  NextGen Search, Matthew "Wizeman" Obinna defeated the more experienced Yusuf "Koste" Moshood.

Saidi "Attacker" Lawal was defeated by  Samuel "Godspower" Elegbede in the super middleweight challenge bout between graduates of the GOtv Boxing NextGen Search.

On the night, 50 fans won GOtv decoders through  raffle draws.

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