Hopefully boxers Bukom Banku and Ayitey
Powers will have their fistful day in the ring on
May 15 rather than the next day.
The fight, which was first rescheduled from April
18 to May 16 must now come off a day earlier,
thanks to protests from traditional priests at Gbese.
A Youth and Development Chief Amotsiwe, Nii
Ayafio Tetteh I, the first to raise protests against
the May 16 'judgment day' bout said the
traditional council couldn't have allowed the
fight to flout a traditional ban on noise making
which will coincide with the bout.
The ban is an annual tradition which precedes
the traditional Homowo festival of the coastal Ga
community.
The Ghana Boxing Authority agreed the new date
with the Promoters and the Gbese Traditional
Council after consultations and discussions.
The fight was first postponed after Powers'
spiritual father, Prophet T.B. Joshua of Nigeria
warned him against fighting on Good Friday.
