27 December 2008
The boxing competition in honour of Samuel Peters was flagged off in Akwa Ibom State last week Friday in honour of the Boxing champion who lost his last shot to the WBC title.
The tournament organised by Sam Peters fans club is for amateur boxers from Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Imo states.Speaking during the opening ceremony,the state's sports commissioner Hon.Friday Enobong Umoetuk said
"This competition is being organised to keep preparing our boxers to be in shape and fit for the National Sports Festival coming up in February 2009 and also to promote and celebrate our son Samuel Peters whose ranking has been released as number 4 in the world under WBC.This information came to me from his camp. His next fight will be with the second best in the world,
if he succeeds from this one then he will have another fight and shot at the WBC crown. We are doing this in his support to spur him on towards this first fight in the first quarter of 2009 after that loss in Berlin.He personaly spoke to me on December 11 to reaffirm that he is ready to fight now and move ahead to capture the belt for Akwa Ibom and Nigeria"
Speaking further on the programmes for the tourney, Umoetuk said" The series will begin from Uyo and move to Eket on December 26 which is boxing day. After Eket there will be bouts in Calabar and Imo states.I have donated a boxing belt for the competition which I handed over to the organisers.The Ministry of Sports also donated a world class boxing ring which Sam Peters used to prepare for his last fight for this tourney.We also assisted with an 18 seater bus to convey the boxers round the venues.
Iam also using this ocassion to inform Akwa Ibom people that a world class kick- boxing ring for the state with all modern facilities has arrived the shores of the country and will be delivered to them before the end of this month.This ring cost us $33,000, thirty three thousand dollars courtesy of our sports loving governor chief Godswill Akpabio in support of the kick boxing association" he concluded.
Meanwhile the state will soon inaugurate its beach soccer association early next year to showcase the new found game where Nigeria still holds sway in Africa and the world.
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