Bernard Quartey, the President of the Ghana Boxing Federation has commended the decision of UK-bases boxer Seth Gyimah alias Freezy Macbones to fight for Ghana.
According to Bernard Quartey, the availability of Freezy Macbones makes Ghana’s boxing team competitive ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers in Dekar, Senegal.
Speaking in an interview with GhanaWeb, Bernard Quartey who praised Freezy said he has made the team more competitive because non of the boxers want to lose their place in the team.
“He has brought competition to the team. You the local boxer now know that it is not on the silver platter, because if you say you are the local champion someone from outside will come and unseat you”.
“If you can recall in his last fight he made it clear to the world that he has a dream to become an Olympic medalist. So as a leader, we’ve been monitoring him. The Olympics allows professional boxers with minute fights to participate.”
“So we spoke to him and did a lot of work to convince him and his management and we have him here to train with our local boxers. He has been in the UK for very long and our style of boxing is different.Every local boxer wants to associate himself with the local boxers because we need to share ideas to uplift and grow in knowledge,” he told GhanaWeb.
Freezy Macbones is part of Ghana’s 13 armature boxers popularly known as the Black Bombers who will be making the trip to Dakar, Senegal for the Olympic Games qualifiers.
Meanwhile, the 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers are expected to start on September 9, 2023.
