{"id":144,"date":"2016-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2016\/01\/06\/larry-ekundayo-fight-stalled-by-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:10:07","slug":"larry-ekundayo-fight-stalled-by-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/larry-ekundayo-fight-stalled-by-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Ekundayo Fight Stalled By Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigeria\u2019s African Boxing Union Champion, Larry Ekundayo, has had to pull out of his scheduled title defence fight because of injury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The ABU Champion damaged his hands during training in preparation for his scheduled titled defence In London.\u00a0<\/span>Undefeated Ekundayo, who won the belt in October 2015, was scheduled to defend it against the Tanzanian boxing star Saidi Mundi this Saturday 4th June in London.<\/span>
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Speaking from his base in London Larry said: \u201cI am bitterly disappointed not to be fighting at the weekend after all the training I\u2019ve done. I was looking forward to bringing sporting success to Nigeria and continue to climb up the world rankings, but my team decided that I couldn\u2019t take the risk to fight with such an injury.\u201d<\/span>
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Larry\u2019s manager, Ben Gray also said: \u00a0\u201cLarry is a great boxer, but even he can\u2019t fight a man with only one hand! Larry carry\u2019s the hopes of a nation on his back and it would not be right to send him into battle without giving him the best opportunity of victory\u201d.<\/span>
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Ekundayo will be out of action for 6-8 weeks whilst his hand heals, once this is done the bout will be rescheduled for later in the year.<\/span>
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Speaking further, the boxer’s Special Advisor, Bimbo Folayan says \u201cthis is a very big loss to Larry considering the amount of time and effort he has put in, but I know Nigerians will support their man and join me in cheering him on when he returns\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nigeria\u2019s African Boxing Union Champion, Larry Ekundayo, has had to pull out of his scheduled title defence fight because of injury.\u00a0 The ABU Champion damaged his hands during training in preparation for his scheduled titled defence In London.\u00a0Undefeated Ekundayo, who won the belt in October 2015, was scheduled to defend it against the Tanzanian boxing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nigeria\u2019s African Boxing Union Champion, Larry Ekundayo, has had to pull out of his scheduled title defence fight because of injury.\u00a0 The ABU Champion damaged his hands during training in preparation for his scheduled titled defence In London.\u00a0Undefeated Ekundayo, who won the belt in October 2015, was scheduled to defend it against the Tanzanian boxing…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}