Ghana’s heavyweight boxing pride
John Napari has the opportunity
to up his stakes for a crack at
the world title when fights
Alexander Petkovic for the
vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Intercontinental Heavyweight
title on October 14 in Munich,
Germany.
31-year-old Napari, 13-0 (8
KOs), has sworn to become the
first Ghanaian heavyweight world
champion and faces a stern test
against Petkovic, also 31 but
with a massively experienced
record (40-4-4, 20 KOs) who
despite hailing from Bosnia is
resident in Munich and will
therefore be at home.
But according to matchmaker
Solomon Otoo Lartey, Napari is
so determined to break new
grounds for Ghanaian
heavyweights that he will not be
affected by the expected hostile
home crowd as well the
disadvantage of fighting outside
the shores of Ghana for the
first time ever.
“John (Napari) is a warrior, a
true African warrior and we have
no doubt that he will bring
glory to Ghana. You have to
watch him in training and eat
back any doubts.”
“We have watched many videos of
Petkovic and trust me, John will
demolish him even if the fight
was in Petkovic’s own room,” Mr.
Otoo Lartey told ALL SPORTS.
Napari is expected to leave the
country for Germany two weeks
before fighttime in order to
acclimatize. He will be
accompanied by his trainer
Mutari Haruna and Manager Abdul
Razak Yakubu. |
