The Ghana Boxing Association [GBA] has expressed its willingness to organize a rematch between Braimah Kamoko \u00a0aka Bukom Banku and Ayittey powers should any promoter approach them to host the bout.<\/p>\n
Powers who\u00a0lost Thursday’s bout to Bukom Banku\u00a0told Citi News<\/strong> in an exclusive interview on Friday stated that he was ready for a rematch.”I have told his camp already that I want a rematch,\u201dPowers said<\/p>\n Reacting to Powers’ request \u00a0the Public Relations Officer of the GBA disclosed that,\u00a0\u00a0the \u00a0managers of both boxers will first have to communicate their readiness to engage in a rematch for a date to be agreed upon.<\/p>\n According to her, the Ghana Boxing Authority [GBA] was not mandated to organise bouts without consulting the managers of the boxers involved .\u00a0\u201cThe Ghana boxing authority cannot sanction a rematch or the two boxers to fight no way.\u00a0 In professional boxing they have their managerial team and they decide what the boxer should do.\u201d<\/p>\n She further added that Braima Kamako was yet to respond to Michael Okine’s proposal .\u201cAs it stands we have not heard from Braimah Kamako,\u00a0 whether he is ready for rematch. If he should also come out that he wants a rematch then the promoters can come for us to sanction a\u00a0 rematch\u201d<\/p>\n Braimah \u201cBukom Banku\u201d 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 \u201cJudgement Day\u201d bout.<\/p>\n As it stands, it is unclear now whether Banku will accept the challenge of a rematch after he signed a deal to face a Russian opponent on May 30.<\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ghana Boxing Association [GBA] has expressed its willingness to organize a rematch between Braimah Kamoko \u00a0aka Bukom Banku and Ayittey powers should any promoter approach them to host the bout. Powers who\u00a0lost Thursday’s bout to Bukom Banku\u00a0told Citi News in an exclusive interview on Friday stated that he was ready for a rematch.”I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15457,"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],"class_list":["post-19044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044","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=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}