Game Boy Wins WBO Africa Lightweight Title

Baby Jet Promotions boxer Emmanuel Tagoe also known as ‘Game Boy’ defeated Namibian Paulus Moses to win the vacant WBO Africa lightweight title.

The fight which went down on Sunday, October 21, 2018, at the Trust Boxing Emporium [Bukom Boxing Arena] saw Tagoe win following a unanimous decision.

Game Boy lost his IBO lightweight world title earlier this year after refusing to take on mandatory challenger Fedor Papazov [in June 2018] had one last retort to his fans as he dominated and outpoint Paulus Moses over 12 rounds.

In his bout against Paulus Moses, Tagoe did not get a knock out as the Namibian was resolute but the Game Boy was sharper and threw more punches than his opponent.

In the end, the three judges scored the fight – [120-110], [120-109], [120-109] in favour of Emmanuel Tagoe.

Emmanuel Tagoe [29-1, 14 KO’s] will be aiming to get a shot at a world title in the near future, but he still needs to work on his punching power if he indeed wants to become a world champion looking at the kind of cracked boxers in the lightweight division.

Gameboy is Ghana’s only world champion – GBA

The Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) had earlier announced that the country’s only world title holder is International Boxing Organization (IBO) Lightweight champion Emmanuel Tagoe.

The second vice president of the GBA, Abraham Kotey Neequaye said the body currently recognizes Emmanuel Tagoe as Ghana’s only world title holder after he has won several matches.

Mr Neequaye was seeking to clarify the seeming confusion over the number of world champions the country currently has following Isaac Dogbe’s spectacular fifth-round stoppage of Mexican Cesar Juarez which earned him the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Interim Super Bantamweight title.

He contended that Dogbe’s status as an interim champion means he is now the mandatory challenger to the world title.