{"id":431981,"date":"2017-10-25T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/25\/former-ghanaian-boxer-napoleon-tagoe-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:00:32","slug":"former-ghanaian-boxer-napoleon-tagoe-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/25\/former-ghanaian-boxer-napoleon-tagoe-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ghanaian boxer Napoleon Tagoe dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/43313791.295.jpg\" alt=\"TAGOE NAPO3\" title=\"TAGOE NAPO3\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Napoleon Tagoe, Former WBC International Champion and trainer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1508918432_499_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former WBC International Champion and trainer, Napoleon Tagoe, has died, Starr News has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The proprietor of the Willpower Boxing Gymnasium at James Town in Accra passed on in the early hours of Wednesday after complaining of a severe headache.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Ghana Boxing Authority board Alhaji Toffik who confirmed the demise of the pugilist on the Starr FM\u2019s sports roundup said his absence will create a huge vacuum in the boxing fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>The departed trainer nurtured boxers like Obodai Sai, Emmanuel Tagoe Albert Mensah and many others.<\/p>\n<p>In his prime, Tagoe won the Ghanaian Middleweight Title. Born in May 1973, the late boxer lived with his family in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoleon Tagoe, Former WBC International Champion and trainer &#13; Former WBC International Champion and trainer, Napoleon Tagoe, has died, Starr News has learnt. The proprietor of the Willpower Boxing Gymnasium at James Town in Accra passed on in the early hours of Wednesday after complaining of a severe headache. A member of the Ghana Boxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Ghanaian boxer Napoleon Tagoe dead - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/25\/former-ghanaian-boxer-napoleon-tagoe-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Ghanaian boxer Napoleon Tagoe dead - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Napoleon Tagoe, Former WBC International Champion and trainer &#013; Former WBC International Champion and trainer, Napoleon Tagoe, has died, Starr News has learnt. 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