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WBC awards D K Poison a new belt

D K Poison has been in the news after President Akufo-Addo ordered that the US$45,000 Ghana owes the retired champion be paid to him

Ghana News Agency (Accra) – The World Boxing Council (WBC) has awarded Ghana’s first world boxing champion, David Kotei, better known as “D K Poison”, a new belt.

Poison won the WBC featherweight title in 1975 when he defeated the Mexican Reubén Olivares by a split points decision after 15 rounds to become the first Ghanaian world boxing champion.

The new belt has been embossed with pictures of the ex-champion, President Akufo-Addo, and José Suleimán, a former president of the WBC.

Alex Ntiamoah-Boakye, chief executive officer of Box Office Promotions, received it on behalf of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA).

Ntiamoah-Boakye said the new belt came in before Akufo-Addo decided to refund the US$45,000 loan to the former champion.

He said in view of the GBA president’s busy schedule, he had not presented the new belt to D K Poison. They were looking for another appropriate date to make a historic presentation, he said.

Bigger government plan

Meanwhile, Moses Foh Amoaning has dropped hints of plans by the government to further honour “D K Poison”.

Speaking to Kojo Mensah on The Asaase Breakfast Show (7 October), Foh Amoaning said the plans include building a 1,000-seater coliseum near Teshie in the Greater Accra Region.

“There is a bigger plan to honour him. There is an AstroTurf [pitch] being built at Ledzokuku/Krowor – and, by the way, that is the constituency where D K Poison hails from, Teshie area,” he said.

Honours in his lifetime

“So we are in discussion with the MP [for Ledzokuku] Honourable Okoe Boye. I have spoken to him, because they are building a huge facility being sponsored by McDan [Shipping Ltd] costing about GHC5 million, and we want to include a 1,000-seater D K Poison Boxing Coliseum and multipurpose sports hall to honour him.”

The sports consultant said the government has a keen interest in honouring the boxing legend while he is alive.

“We don’t wanna wait for him to go up before we honour him in this matter. The case that we put has been accepted in principle by both McDan and Honourable Okoe Boye, and [by] the contractors we are in charge of the project, so there is bigger news than what the president has announced,” Foh Amoaning said.

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