{"id":58823,"date":"2025-10-23T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:55:35","slug":"okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/okolie-headlines-boxing-card-in-lagos-nigeria-on-december-19th-3\/","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 billboard will also feature the participation of British heavyweight contender David Adeleye, who has Nigerian roots. Okolie, former cruiserweight champion, will make his professional debut in Africa, an emerging market for boxing.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Big-time boxing comes to Lagos!<\/p><cite>Lawrence Okolie<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nOkolie expressed his enthusiasm: &#8220;This will be a historic moment for Africa, my family, and my career. There has been a lot of conversation, but let&#8217;s see who really wants to dance. December got spicy. Thanks to Frank Warren, George Warren, and Queensberry for making it possible for me.&#8221;\n\nIn addition to Okolie and Adeleye, the December lineup will include Emanuel Odiase, Taiwo Agbaje, and Shiloh Thomas.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Nigeria has a proud history in boxing, and we are very pleased to provide this opportunity to two of our leading boxers.<\/p><cite>Frank Warren<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWarren added: &#8220;Queensberry is the home of the heavyweights and we hope our guys do their job in Lagos in December.&#8221;","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 billboard will also feature the participation of British heavyweight contender David Adeleye, who has Nigerian roots. Okolie, former cruiserweight [&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-58823","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\/58823","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=58823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}