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YBL Season 2: Organisers canvass for professional conduct among boxers

Posted : 08 July 2024

Ahead of Season 2 of the Yucateco boxing league, expected to get underway in July, the CEO of the leading boxing promotional outfit, Omonlei Yakubu Imadu, has urged participating boxers to conduct themselves as professionals throughout the season.


At the Yucateco Boxing Promotions head office in Lagos, Imadu assured that the standard of the competition would remain intact. The insightful boxing promoter said the outfit will not lower its standards in organizing a world-class boxing league from July 26th to November 1st, 2024.


“We are raising the standard much higher this time. A few things we overlooked in the maiden season will no longer be handled with levity. Hence, we have called on the boxers, coaches, and umpires to be at their best within and outside the ring,” he said.


Hon. Omonlei, who initiated the first-of-its-kind boxing league in Nigeria in 2023, further stated that the increase in the prize money from N20 million to N50 million naira in Season 2 is to significantly impact the financial state of the boxing clubs. 


“You will agree with me that any of the clubs who emerge as this season’s champion may have just changed their fortunes forever. The prize money will help them invest more in their boxers as well as their camp and training facilities,” he added.


“It should also interest you to note that fourteen (14) different states and cities will be hosting the bouts this time, and I make bold to say that the very positive feedback we have gotten from the accredited venues is an indication that the states are truly prepared to touch their communities through boxing,” he explained.


Twelve boxing clubs will compete in Season 2 of the Yucateco boxing league. The opening week of bouts will be held in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, July 26th, before the fight train moves to other communities and states in Nigeria.

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