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Currently watching this fight for the first time, and I thought I would share
Khaosai Galaxy vs Kongtoranee Payakroon - WBA Super Flyweight title/Bangkok, Thailand
Always like how relaxed Khaosai looked in the ring. Kongtoranee got Khaosai out of his zone a bit
edit: I wish I could understand what is being said post fight. Looks like pure shenanigans
Khaosai Galaxy vs Kongtoranee Payakroon - WBA Super Flyweight title/Bangkok, Thailand
Always like how relaxed Khaosai looked in the ring. Kongtoranee got Khaosai out of his zone a bit
edit: I wish I could understand what is being said post fight. Looks like pure shenanigans
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A NEW DOCUMENTARY FINDS BOXING TREASURES IN BUKOM, GHANA
31
DEC
BY JOSEPH SANTOLIQUITO
Scilla Owusu was walking slowly through her brother Danny Wonders’ photo exhibition called “This is Ghana” in Accra, Ghana, in January 2020. She was glancing at one photo after the next, when something struck her. The eyes of a young boy seemed to look right through her and pierce her conscious.
The boy happened to be wearing boxing gloves.
Little did Owusu know it would change her life for nearly a year. She is fully Ghanaian, but was born and resides in London. Her dad is from the Asante tribe and her mother is from the Akyem tribe.
Prior to that, she had little interest in sports or boxing, but the picture of the boy stirred something. It caused her to ask her brother where the photo was taken, and from there, it prompted her to become more curious. Her research discovered that a number of world boxing champions came from the small Ghanaian town of Bukom, which produced all-time great Azumah Nelson and titlists Ike Quartey and Joshua Clottey.
It resulted in her first documentary “City Of Bukom,” released this week on YouTube.
Owusu, 24, undertook the 10-month project, from December 2020 to September 2021, on a shoestring budget of $671.52. She did it with the thin staff of four cameramen and one sound person—and she did it with a broken left collarbone, injured during a quadbike accident in December 2020.
She found producing a boxing documentary was actually a great panacea from the pain she was enduring, which grew even greater after all of her priceless footage was accidentally deleted.
Nelson, Quartey, Clottey and more contemporary fighters like Joseph Agbeko, Isaac Dogboe and Richard Commey are involved.
Scilla Owusu took a bold, brave step in producing “City of Bukom,” reaching into the depths of what makes Ghana a country that produces great boxing talent (Photo by Theresa Macharia).
Plus, Owusu wasn’t afraid to delve into the deeper subject of how ignored Ghana’s champions have been and how the sport that’s brought great pride to the African nation is placed in a convenient corner, only to be taken out of storage for occasional political gain.
Perhaps what wretches the senses more than anything is the squalor many of these young men—and many children—come from in an attempt to reach their boxing dreams.
A music video director, Owusu already counts A-lists African stars such as Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Burna Boy, and Fuse ODG among her clients. She had worked with global brands such as Patoranking, Mr Eazi & Davido.
But during the COVID-19 lockdown, she was searching for something new that would stir her creative juices.
That’s how she found boxing.
More importantly, the strong, virile history of Ghanaian boxing.
“I remember seeing the photo of the young boy at my brother’s photo exhibition, I asked my brother where he was from,” Owusu said. “I thought it was really intriguing of this boy holding up these boxing gloves, though not in a playful way. He was holding them up in a serious way.
“My brother told me the boy was from Jamestown, and that caused me to Google Jamestown boxing, and the keyword ‘Bukom’ kept coming up in my search. That is how I found out about the small suburb of Jamestown. I only saw one boxing match in life, prior to this, and it was an Anthony Joshua versus Wladimir Klitschko in 2017.”
Isaac Dogboe was a big help to Owusu in reaching all-time great Azumah Nelson for “City of Bukom.”
Dogboe was a big influence in the documentary and that led to garnering the Nelson interview. Owusu tried numerous times to reach Nelson through various ancillary people who tried to no avail. In fact, when she finally got Nelson, he had no idea she was trying to reach him via his manager.
“Once I got him, he was great,” she said. “He was like a grandfather. I can see why the nation of Ghana looks at him the way they do. Interviewing him was a great experience and I was truly humbled. He gave me some words of encouragement and I’ll forever hold it to my heart. It inspires me to want to do more for Bukom.
“It is an area that needs help, and its boxers need help. Ghana has to take of its champions and its future. Hopefully, this documentary will shed some light on that.”
If you want a good idea why so many great fighters come from Ghana, check out “City of Bukom:”
Will watch this later
young yeesh
All Star
I have to as well, my father talks about all these guys
Francis saying "boxing is just about throwing hands" is exactly why his ex-coach told him to forget about being a boxer, focus on MMA
BigBrown21
All Star
The card last night was pretty good brehs.
I won just over $140 parlaying Frank Martin, Viktor Faust, Frank Sanchez and Luis Ortiz.
Glad Ortiz took out former World Champion Charles Martin. The fight was pretty wild, but Ortiz knocked Charles senseless with the overhand shot at the end and finished him off to get the TKO.
I won just over $140 parlaying Frank Martin, Viktor Faust, Frank Sanchez and Luis Ortiz.
Glad Ortiz took out former World Champion Charles Martin. The fight was pretty wild, but Ortiz knocked Charles senseless with the overhand shot at the end and finished him off to get the TKO.
Conscious Pilot
Do Better.
We gonna be live going over the PBC “PPV Card” and Season 4 Cobra Kai review.
firemanBk
The Manslayer
HW match ups I'd like to see next
Fury vs Usyk
Joshua vs Ortiz
Wilder vs Whyte
I know we have to waste our time with the Usyk/Joshua immediate rematch cause boxing contracts are stupid and waste everyone's time but I'd prefer to see these match ups. All great match ups on paper. Joshua would definitely be heavy favored vs Ortiz who looked bad but his chin still sucks for HW and Ortiz showed he can still crack at least so I wouldn't immediately write him off in that match up. Wilder vs Whyte is a gun fight and Fury vs Usyk is the biggest fight in boxing to determine the clear best HW in the world.
Fury vs Usyk
Joshua vs Ortiz
Wilder vs Whyte
I know we have to waste our time with the Usyk/Joshua immediate rematch cause boxing contracts are stupid and waste everyone's time but I'd prefer to see these match ups. All great match ups on paper. Joshua would definitely be heavy favored vs Ortiz who looked bad but his chin still sucks for HW and Ortiz showed he can still crack at least so I wouldn't immediately write him off in that match up. Wilder vs Whyte is a gun fight and Fury vs Usyk is the biggest fight in boxing to determine the clear best HW in the world.
i need to see joe joyce in a big fight too....id rather see him face luis ortiz instead
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Fixed that for you
Bigblackted4
Superstar
He would get beat up badly and or retired from fighting if he boxed either.
chunky_mcdaniels
All Star
Right.
He's been dangling that mma carrot for a long minute now. Finally he gets a big interview with Dana and all of a sudden he's the MMA boxing guy.
The reason nobody wants to employ Teddy anymore (networks, promoters and fighters) isn't because he's too honest as he puts it. It's because he's an old, exhausting, difficult person.