play videoJoseph Agbeko, a former world bantamweight world champion Insults and harsh criticism from Ghanaians serve as inspiration and motivation for Ghanaian boxers, Joseph Agbeko, a former world bantamweight world champion has told GhanaWeb.
In a tell-it-all conversation with GhanaWeb’s Joseph Adamafio, the two-time world champion revealed that boxers are spurred on to fight and achieve success even at their breakpoint due to fear of abuse.
Like the proverbial success has many fathers and failure being an orphan, Agbeko has noted that when you win a bout, praises are lavished on you but when the result go south, Ghanaians turn on you with no mercy.
play videoLate President Jerry John Rawlings Two-time bantamweight world champion Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko has observed that amateur boxing witnessed a tremendous growth during the era of late president Jerry John Rawlings.
Agbeko told GhanaWeb’s Joseph Adamafio that never in the country’s history has boxing enjoyed much support as it did under Rawlings.
Taking his turn on Sports Check program, Agbeko attributed Rawlings’s dedication and commitment to the sport to his past life as a former boxer.
He explained that JJ Rawlings understood the intricacies of the sport and its value to the country because he at some point in his life practiced the sport.