{"id":57340,"date":"2025-10-22T02:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:43:01","slug":"okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-2\/","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\nIn addition to Okolie, the card will feature David Adeleye, a promising British heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, who was formerly a cruiserweight champion, was born in Nigeria and this fight represents his return to Africa, an emerging market for boxing.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Top-level boxing comes to Lagos!<\/p><cite>Lawrence Okolie<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nOkolie expressed his enthusiasm for the event, highlighting the historical importance of the fight for Africa, his family, and his career. He thanked Frank and George Warren, as well as Queensberry, for making this event possible.\n\nPromoter Frank Warren also shared his enthusiasm, highlighting the rich history of boxing in Nigeria and the opportunity to present two of his top boxers in Lagos. Queensberry is proud to be the &#8220;House of Heavyweights&#8221; and looks forward to seeing its boxers shine in December.\n\nEmanuel Odiase, Taiwo Agbaje, and Shiloh Thomas will also be present on the December bill, promising a night full of action and excitement for boxing fans.","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. In addition to Okolie, the card will feature David Adeleye, a promising British heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, who [&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-57340","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\/57340","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=57340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}