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Popular and former Ghanaian boxer Azumah Nelson has admitted that before boxing got in the way of his presidential ambitions.
The 68-year-old retired as one of Ghana’s and Africa’s most illustrious boxers after almost 30 years of combat.
Azumah Nelson gained notoriety while holding the WBC featherweight and super featherweight belts in the 1980s and 1990s.
When questioned about his early years, he revealed that he had aspirations of leading Ghana as president.
“When you were a kid, you could say whatever you wanted. If I wasn’t a boxer, I’d like to be President. “I expressed what I wanted to do,” he remarked on TV XYZ’s Legends show.
Nelson explained his passion in boxing by saying,“My dad liked boxing, but my grandfather won’t let him go that far.” When I was younger, my father took me to see a boxing event… When we arrived, there were two tiny boys fighting, although one was older than the other.
“When they were finished, I noticed tears running down the young kid’s eyes and I believed the larger one had deceived the small one, so I told my father I wanted to fight the older child, and he said alright.”
“But I insisted on fighting right away, not understanding there was a procedure to follow before fighting, but I was thinking if it’s fighting, let’s go fight now… I wished to fight for the little guy.”
Source;Ghbase.com
