{"id":58135,"date":"2025-10-22T19:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:18:49","slug":"okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Okolie headlines boxing card in Lagos, Nigeria on December 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lawrence Okolie to Headline Boxing Card in Lagos, Nigeria<\/h2>\n\nBritish 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.\n\nThe fight card will also feature David Adeleye, another prominent heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, who was previously a cruiserweight champion, will make his professional debut on the African continent, an emerging market for boxing.\n\nThis will be a historic moment for Africa, my family, and my career.\n\nIn addition to Okolie and Adeleye, the card will include Emanuel Odiase, Taiwo Agbaje, and Shiloh Thomas, promising a night full of action and excitement for boxing fans.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Nigeria has a proud boxing history, and we are very happy to provide this opportunity to two of our top fighters.<\/p><cite>Frank Warren<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe event promises to be a memorable moment for boxing in Africa, with the presence of talented boxers and the expectation of a great spectacle.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Okolie to Headline Boxing Card in Lagos, Nigeria British 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 fight card will also feature David Adeleye, another prominent heavyweight contender with Nigerian roots. Okolie, who was previously [&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":[205,7546,7547,10056],"class_list":{"0":"post-58135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-lakes","9":"tag-nigeria","10":"tag-okolie"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135","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=58135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}