Ghana, best African Boxing Country??

[Master]

I enjoyed watching Asumah Nelson and you can tell many fighters used his style and were influenced by them such as Ike and Clottey. Technically perfect jab, guard, left hook and right cross.

[holmcall]

Here's a good article I found on the BBC about the neighbourhood of Bukom in Ghana thats produced five world champions.

BBC News - Bukom: Why an Accra suburb produces champion boxers

WTF. How come this link works and mine don't. I need help here.

[holmcall]

Boxing is the main subject over here [Bukom]
--Boxing manager Yoofi Boham

You can see the trend, that each decade something unique comes out of Bukom…
--Sammy Okaitey, Sports Editor of Ghana's Daily Graphic.

You've got to give people hope in life, and for the people of Bukom, boxing is hope…
--Claude Abrams, editor of Britain's Boxing News.


This country of only 21 million produces a disproportionately large amount of fighters and most come from the southern coastal city of Accra. Breaking it down even further, most come from an oppressively hot shantytown on the outskirts called Bukom and are members of the Ga tribe. Because of the flagging fortunes of the sport in this country, many of the fighters toil elsewhere which, except for South Africa, seems to be the prevailing pattern. Still, Bukom is a fight town with few equals.




The above is from a book I wrote years ago.

[holmcall]

Floyd “Klutei” Robertson had a deceptive record of 25-11-4 as he fought from 1958 to 1967. He was 8-3-1 while duking in Ghana, 16-5-2 while fighting in the U.K., and 1-3-1 elsewhere. Among his opponents were Mexican great Vicente Saldivar (29-1 coming in), Mexican great Sugar Ramos (44-1-3 at the time), Ghanaian Joe Tetteh (28-4-1), Giordano Campari (66-7-4), Howard Winstone (23-0), Sergio Caprari (48-3-1), and Brian Cartwright (41-14-3). Cherry picking was an unknown concept to “Klutei” who would signal the toughness that would emerge from Accra.