The Greatest African Boxer Ever, Azumah Nelson

Azumah Nelson started his steller amateur career after competing at the 1978 All African Games and Commonwealth Games where he won Gold medals in the Featherweight division, setting an amateur record of 50-2. The Ghanaian boxer born on September 19,1958 at Bokum province of Ghana, where boxing was a way of life rather than an art ; lunched his professional boxing debut in 1979. He went through the ranks and became arguably the greatest African boxer of all time and currently 17th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec's ranking. Azumah's style and attitude in the ring won him a lot of nicknames like "the boxing Professor" , "Zoom zoom Nelson" and the "terrible warrior". Some international bouts he fought are Salvador Sanchez, WBC featherweight (21st July 1982) at the Madison Square Garden (NY), Irving Mitchel, Hector Cortez (1984) at Las Vegas, knocked out Wilfredo Gómez on 8th December 1984 in a WBC featherweight bout in Puerto Rico, Juvenal Ordenes in September 1985 in Miami, Mario Martinez in Los Angeles ( WBC super featherweight title), Former World Champ Lupe Suarez, gave Sydney Del Rovere a technical knockout, Jim McDonnell in 1989 (London) and Juan Laport (World Jr. Lightweight tittle) just to mention. The professor Azumah Nelson fought 47 bouts and won 39 with 28 technical knockouts, lost 6 and drew 2. 
Report by: Nene Martey Botchway