{"id":1114636,"date":"2022-06-08T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/08\/olympic-medalist-samuel-takyi-faces-mandlenkosi-sibuso-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:16:09","slug":"olympic-medalist-samuel-takyi-faces-mandlenkosi-sibuso-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/08\/olympic-medalist-samuel-takyi-faces-mandlenkosi-sibuso-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic medalist Samuel Takyi faces Mandlenkosi Sibuso in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"416\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Samuel_Takyi_gold_medal.jpg\"   alt=\"Samuel Takyi\" title=\"Samuel Takyi\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Takyi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games bronze medalist, Samuel \u2018Ring Warrior\u2019 Takyi and his managers will depart Accra on Wednesday for Johannesburg, South Africa to fight on Saturday against Mandlenkosi Sibuso (4-1, 1 KO) at the Emperors Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Takyi who has one win in one fight at the professional level believes he has what it takes to win outside Ghana, and the bout will be a great morale booster to his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tell Ghanaians very soon I will bring them world titles so they should pray for me. I\u2019m going to South Africa to raise the flag, I am ready to make Ghana proud,\u201d he told the media.<\/p>\n<p>He is handled by the Bazooka Boxing Promotions, headed by Mr. Clement Quartey, son of the former WBA welterweight champion, Ike Quartey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>They have signed the Ghana Boxing Authority directive to donate a percentage of their fights abroad.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"0GAhROrUXGI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GAhROrUXGI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Takyi Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games bronze medalist, Samuel \u2018Ring Warrior\u2019 Takyi and his managers will depart Accra on Wednesday for Johannesburg, South Africa to fight on Saturday against Mandlenkosi Sibuso (4-1, 1 KO) at the Emperors Palace. Takyi who has one win in one fight at the professional level believes he has what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1114638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[671,1404,16713,16714,7684,2889,16715,2620,14190],"class_list":["post-1114636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-faces","tag-mandlenkosi","tag-medalist","tag-olympic","tag-samuel","tag-sibuso","tag-south","tag-takyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}