Super bantamweight boxer, Opeyemi ‘Sense’ Adeyemi was voted best boxer at the GOtv Boxing Night 18, which held at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan on Thursday.
The winner got the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy to which a cash prize of N1 million was attached.
The 19-year old boxer, despite drawing his national challenge bout with Sadiq โHappy Boyโ Adeleke, recorded the highest number of votes in the poll carried out by journalists at the event.
According to the show organisers, Flykite Productions, the announcement of his name as the winner of the prize was not made at the venue, as it is customary, following an advice against it by the security personnel on duty at the show.
Opeyemi will be presented with his cheque at our Lagos office,โ the statement said.
Last year at GOtv Boxing NextGen Search 4 in Abeokuta, Opeyemi emerged best boxer.
This was after catching the eyes of boxing coaches at GOtv Boxing NextGen Search 3 in 2017 in Ibadan, where he was deemed a year too young to turn professional, despite excelling during the sparring sessions for young boxers. He returned the following year and excelled again.
In the headline bout of the night, Oto โJoe Boyโ Joseph of Nigeria defended his African Boxing Union lightweight title by seeing off his Ghanaian opponent, Success โBrave Warriorโ Tetteh of Ghana within 46 seconds.
Ridwan โScorpionโ Oyekola emerged the new national super featherweight champion with a first round dismissal of long-reigning champion, Taofeek โTaozonโ Bisuga. In the light middleweight category, Akeem โDodoโ Sadiku stopped Republic of Beninโs Ekpresso Djamihou in the fourth round.
The lightweight division saw Taiwo โEsepoโ Agbaje and Isaac โI Starโ Chukwudi stopping their respective opponents-Michael โHoly Mikeโ Jacobs and Muftau โOlokeโ Owolabi-in the first round.
West African Boxing Union welterweight champion, Rilwan ‘Baby Faceโ Babatunde, made a successful return to the ring with a fourth-round dismissal of Ganiyu โEnergyโ Kolawole.
