Ghana’s boxing legend Azumah Nelson is showing by the day that he is a true lover of boxing and he would like the name of Ghana to remain firmly on the boxing map of the world. Azumah has proved to be a selfless sportsman, who is prepared to share his vast knowledge and experience in the game for others to also reach the top.

Azumah arguably the best professional boxer the country has produced was appropriately honoured with the lifetime achievement award by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana in his hey days and now he is an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.

The former long reigning world champion has started plans to establish an Azumah Nelson Foundation for the needy youth and he is fully prepared to reach to talented boxers around and encourage them to reach the top

Azumah has shown that boxing is in his blood. He was right in the thick of the crowd that gave Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko, the IBF Bantamweight world champion a tumultuous welcome on his arrival home after successfully defending his title against William Jose Gonzalez of Nicaragua. You can see that Azumah is thrilled that there is someone around who is brilliantly following the path he paved.

His advice to the young champion is that, he should train and fight like a contender to enable him maintain his high level of conditioning and continue winning his fights

“Many boxers can become world champions but it takes extra quality to remain a champion. Whenever you go into the gym to train, the attitude has to be that of hunger for even bigger success. You will take a lot more punishment to always get yourself in good shape” Azumah said.

An obviously grateful Agbeko thanked Azumah for his wonderful advice which he said had given him a lot of inspiration for his next fight which hopefully would take place in next March.

Meanwhile Agbeko’s success has intensified boxing activities at Bukom, the cradle of boxing in Ghana and it is hoped that with the right tutelage Ghana would soon produce a lot of talented boxers.