Nigerian boxer ‘Scorpion’ records first round Knockout in Japan
Nigeria’s Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola has continued to dominate headlines in the Japanese boxing circle as he recorded a first round knockout in a boxing show tagged: Okinawa Mayhem held early hours of Sunday where he thrashed Manat Sopato from Thailand.
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According to the official website of the event, which was part of the Mugen Idomu Volume 19 Boxing Show series, Sopato fell twice within 90 seconds of the first round before a a right hand hook-punch from Scorpion in the second minute floored him to signal the end of the much publicised bout.
The victory has catapulted Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ from his within hundred positions to be within first ten in the Super featherweight division in the world according to boxRec.com where all professional boxers are being rated based on their records.
Scorpion who has become the toast of boxing fans in Japan has won all his fights since he relocated to Japan in October 2022 after defeating Daisuke Watanabe, Hikaru Fukunaga and the latest victim Manat Sopatip respectively.
Reacting to the victory, the Secretary of Nigeria Boxing Board of Control (NBBofC), Remi Aboderin has described Oyekola as a product of the result of positive changes that was occasioned by the radical approach of the board which turned the fortune of Nigerian professional boxing around.
