Team Dogboe and Rising Star Africa Promotions can only let the WBO interim world title bout take place in Ghana by coughing up a staggering $500,000.
Team Dogboe and Rising Star Africa Promotions won the purse bid of $117,000 for the WBO interim world title fight in Ghana between Cesar Juarez and Isaac Dogboe scheduled for January, 2018.
At last week’s WBO convention in Cuba, the sanction body mandated Isaac Dogboe and Cesar Juarez to fight for the interim world title due to an injury to the WBO super bantamweight champion Jesse Magdaleno.
However, Team Dogboe would have to pay a whopping sum of $500,000 to stage the fight in Ghana.
After winning the purse bid, father and trainer of Isaac Dogboe, Paul Dogboe told Ghanacrusader.com that his outfit will need $500,000 before staging the fight in Ghana.
“We now have the right to stage the interim world title fight in Ghana, it is something that we have been looking for,” he said.
“Financial wise it won’t be easy to stage that fight, roughly we need $500,000 to do the show, that is a lot of money.”
“Big dignitaries from the WBO will be coming down to watch that fight so we have to make them feel at home, so we need that money to stage the fight in Ghana.”
Reigning champion Jessie Magdaleno was forced to drop out of his November fight with #1 contender Cesar Juarez, and his medical notification indicated he would not be available to fight until March or April.
This opened up a fight between Juarez and the next available contender, which according to the rankings was Filipino Marlon Tapales. But Tapales announced he was not available to fight as soon as needed to fight for a vacant interim title due to problems he was having with his trainer.
However, the available boxer to face Juarez was Dogboe and the Ghanaian accepted to take on the Mexican.