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Nigerian boxer wins African Boxing Union’s welterweight championship

Steve Dede

The ABU Welterweight title match happened on Friday, October 30 in London

 
 

Nigerian highest Welterweighter Larry 'The Natural' Ekundayo won a 12-round-match against Ghanaian boxer Joseph 'The Double Horror' Lamptey  to become the new African Boxing Union's Welterweight Champion.

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The ABU Welterweight title match happened on Friday, October 30 in London.

The twelve rounds fought were exciting and rousing - the Ghanaian was a worthy adversary and gave as good as he got - but eventually, the stronger boxer won, and Larry lifted his belt as the new African Boxing Union's Welterweight Champion.

This win is both a triumph for Larry and a personal victory for Nigerians after Lamptey hurled the Nigerian flag to the floor at the weigh-in the previous day because he did not have a flag.

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