{"id":442947,"date":"2011-06-17T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/nigeria-joe-mensah-wants-only-aiba-certified-judges-for-nsf\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:53:11","slug":"nigeria-joe-mensah-wants-only-aiba-certified-judges-for-nsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/nigeria-joe-mensah-wants-only-aiba-certified-judges-for-nsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Joe Mensah Wants Only Aiba Certified Judges for NSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32.0576271186\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailychampion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Former Lagos State Boxing Coach, Joe Mensah, has urged the organisers of the 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt to use only judges certified by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA).<\/p>\n<p>Mensah said on Tuesday in Lagos that only judges acquainted with the current rules of the sport, could help to promote boxing in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said that good judgment at tournaments would help produce potential boxers who could win laurels for Nigeria in future international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that many of the judges were not current and thereby misled boxers on the areas where they could gain more points at international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The coach urged judges selected to officiate at the festival to be fair so as not to cause disaffection among the boxers.<\/p>\n<p>He said that poor officiating had contributed to the selection of wrong boxers who later performed dismally outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boxing judges who will officiate at the National Sports Festival should be AIBA certified for the sport to be promoted through fairness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Judges should also be free from biases which could dampen the interest of good boxers or affect boxers performances at competitions,&#8221; Mensah said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed the confidence that Lagos boxers would win the boxing event because they had prepared adequately with series of competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah listed some of the competitions as the Saturday Boxing Show, Opeyemi Bamidele Boxing Competition and Adopt a Talent Hunt Programme.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106170459.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Joe Mensah Wants Only Aiba Certified Judges for NSF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Joe Mensah Wants Only Aiba Certified Judges for NSF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 16 June 2011 Former Lagos State Boxing Coach, Joe Mensah, has urged the organisers of the 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt to use only judges certified by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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