{"id":364302,"date":"2017-10-23T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T09:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364302"},"modified":"2017-10-23T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T09:53:45","slug":"im-sad-for-bukom-banku-sarkodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364302","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m sad for Bukom Banku \u2013 Sarkodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few hours after Ghanaian boxer Braima Kamoko a.k.a. Bukom Banku had been trounced by Bastie Samir in a cruiserweight non-title bout, Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie took to twitter to commiserate with Bukom.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie on Sunday morning described how saddened he was by the defeat of his favourite Ghanaian boxer Bukom Banku.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he believed that Banku wasn\u2019t fit for the bout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sark1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54332 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sark1.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sark1.png 488w, http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sark1-300x120.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former WBO Africa Cruiserweight champion, Brimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku was defeated by former Ghana Amateur boxing team captain, Bastie Samir at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the bout, Bukom Banku had promised to knock out the Bastie in the 6th Round but ironically he started losing it in 3rd Round after receiving hard punches from Bastie. He was defeated in the 7th round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-54333\" src=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bk.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bk.jpg 400w, http:\/\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bk-300x211.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie whose \u2018Highest\u2019 album was recently released has been nominated in the African Act category of the 2017 Music of Black Origin (MOGO).<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few hours after Ghanaian boxer Braima Kamoko a.k.a. Bukom Banku had been trounced by Bastie Samir in a cruiserweight non-title bout, Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie took to twitter to commiserate with Bukom. Sarkodie on Sunday morning described how saddened he was by the defeat of his favourite Ghanaian boxer Bukom Banku. According to him, he believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":364303,"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":[403,137],"tags":[1344,1346,1414],"class_list":["post-364302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-showbiz","tag-bastie-samir","tag-bukom-banku","tag-sarkodie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364302","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}