{"id":18874,"date":"2014-05-16T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2014-05-16T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:29:00","slug":"banku-wins-judgement-day-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"Banku wins Judgement day bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braimah &#8220;Bukom Banku&#8221; Kamoko won a 12-round unanimous decision over rival Ayittey Powers on Thursday to run his perfect record to 27-0 in a non-title &#8220;Judgement Day&#8221; bout.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Bukom based boxer won after the three judges scored the bout 117-109, 119-100 and 120-108.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18950\" alt=\"44\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/44.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/44.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/44-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powers started the bout on a strong note but soon began to lose momentum in the bout as he failed to follow up on the punches that forced Banku open.<\/p>\n<p>Bukom Banku got into his groove in the second round and\u00a0 dictated the pace with a flurry of punches with Powers going on the defensive.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the bout, Banku went after Powers and landed most of the power punches mostly due to his punching combinations and movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18960\" alt=\"48\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/48.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/48.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/48-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boxer surprised the fans with his skillful boxing techniques and even had time to toy with the tired Powers who could not keep up with the flow of punches.<\/p>\n<p>Braimah Kamoko improves his record to 27-0 while Ayitey Powers drops to 18-24-1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">By: Mawuli Tsikata and Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braimah &#8220;Bukom Banku&#8221; Kamoko won a 12-round unanimous decision over rival Ayittey Powers on Thursday to run his perfect record to 27-0 in a non-title &#8220;Judgement Day&#8221; bout. The 34-year-old Bukom based boxer won after the three judges scored the bout 117-109, 119-100 and 120-108. Powers started the bout on a strong note but soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,3,38],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}