Ghana Boxing will be alive again on June 13, 2025, when Legacy Rise Sports Promotions hosts another show dubbed ‘Battle of the Beasts’ at the Bukom Boxing Arena.
The main bout is between Ghana’s Jacob ‘The Beast’ Dickson, (14-1-0, 13KOs) against American Andrew ‘The Beast’ Tahiti, (21-2, 17 KOs) for the WBC Africa Bridgerweight title, however the second main bout between Theophilus Nii Kpakpo Allotey aka ‘Theo Lopez’ versus Daniel Selassie Gorsh aka ‘The Emperor’ for his WBO Africa Bantamweight title has been the talk of town and everywhere boxing fans meet, the discussion is about Selassie and Lopez.
Accepting the challenge to each other alone has put them in a special class as brave boxers of Ghana.
For the records both are undefeated, and while Gorsh (15-0-0) turned professional at an early age on the advise of Coach Lawrence Carl Lokko of the Bronx Boxing Gym, while Allotey went through the amateur grades and represented Ghana at the African Olympic Games qualifiers to Paris 2024 fighting in Dakar, Thailand and Italy. He has also gone on a high-level training tour in the British Cayman Islands guided by Coach Dr. Ofori Asare of the Wisdom Boxing Gym.
Allotey (10-0-0) holds the National Super Flyweight as well as the UBO African Bantamweight title belt, and Gorsh is the National and WBO Africa Bantamweight champion.
He is managed by Wisdom Boxing Promotions and inspired by many top-class boxers, including Joseph Agbeko, Patrick Allotey, Lomachenko, Sugar Ray Leonard, Theofimo Lopez, Canelo, and Floyd Mayweath. USA-based L & B Management Syndicate manages Daniel Gorsh, who also loves to be called doctor because he injects his opponents.
For sure, a good fight is expected as both have promised a knock-out, so one will fall or call it a night.
By Sammy Heywood Okine
