{"id":56984,"date":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:38:11","slug":"okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Okolie headlines boxing card in Lagos, Nigeria on December 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lawrence Okolie to Headline Boxing Card in Lagos, Nigeria<\/h2>\n\nHeavyweight Lawrence Okolie will headline an exciting boxing card in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 19th. This event will mark a significant milestone for boxing in Africa.\n\nThe card will also feature David Adeleye, a promising British heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, a former cruiserweight champion, was born in Nigeria and this will be his first professional fight on the African continent, an emerging market for boxing.\n\n&#8220;High-level boxing comes to Lagos!&#8221; Okolie said.\n\nOkolie expressed his enthusiasm for this historic event, highlighting its importance for his family and his career. In addition, he thanked Frank and George Warren, as well as Queensberry, for making this opportunity possible.\n\nIn the December lineup, Emanuel Odiase, Taiwo Agbaje, and Shiloh Thomas will also participate.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;This will be a historic moment for Africa, my family, and my career. There has been a lot of talk, but let&#8217;s see who really wants to dance. Detty December just got spicy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Lawrence Okolie<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nFrank Warren also shared his enthusiasm for the event, highlighting the rich history of boxing in Nigeria and the opportunity it represents for its outstanding boxers.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Nigeria has a proud boxing history, and we are very happy to provide this opportunity to two of our top fighters. Queensberry is the home of heavyweights and we expect our guys to get the job done in Lagos in December.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Frank Warren<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Okolie to Headline Boxing Card in Lagos, Nigeria Heavyweight Lawrence Okolie will headline an exciting boxing card in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 19th. This event will mark a significant milestone for boxing in Africa. The card will also feature David Adeleye, a promising British heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, a former cruiserweight champion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,10020,10021,7547],"class_list":{"0":"post-56984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-david-adeleye","9":"tag-lawrence-okolie","10":"tag-nigeria"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}