{"id":221,"date":"2017-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2017\/10\/10\/boxing-nigerias-ekundayo-pens-deal-with-team-mgm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:12:22","slug":"boxing-nigerias-ekundayo-pens-deal-with-team-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/boxing-nigerias-ekundayo-pens-deal-with-team-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Nigeria\u2019s Ekundayo pens deal with Team MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"width:713px;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;clear:left;margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/larry-ekundayo.jpg?703\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 10px;border-width:0;max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"Boxing: Nigeria\u2019s Ekundayo pens deal with Team MGM\"><\/a><span style=\"caption-side: bottom;font-size: 90%;margin-top: -10px;margin-bottom: 10px;text-align: center\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\"><font size=\"4\">Rising Welterweight star, And African Boxing Union Welterweight Champion Larry Ekundayo, is the latest boxer to join Team MGM after signing a management deal.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Boasting an 11-0 record, Ekundayo already has an impressive list of names on his ledger and is aiming to extend that over the coming months.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Welterweight division is full of top contenders and Ekundayo feels he has joined the perfect team to help him establish himself among the very best.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThis move has come at the perfect stage of my career. I\u2019m looking at the big fights and with Team MGM behind me I\u2019m totally confident of getting those opportunities,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The signing of Larry Ekandayo is one that pleases Team MGM.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cHe\u2019s a quality boxer. The names on his record at such an early stage of his career speaks volumes and we look forward to this exciting new chapter,\u201d Team MGM commented\u201d.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>He is the No 1 contender for the Commonwealth title and he will be position for a world title shot in the near future.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Plans are in place to ensure his next fight will come up before the end of the year with the London based Boxer revealing that he would like to make his next fight happen in Nigeria<\/font><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\u200b<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Welterweight star, And African Boxing Union Welterweight Champion Larry Ekundayo, is the latest boxer to join Team MGM after signing a management deal.\u00a0Boasting an 11-0 record, Ekundayo already has an impressive list of names on his ledger and is aiming to extend that over the coming months.\u00a0The Welterweight division is full of top contenders [&hellip;]<\/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-221","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":"Rising Welterweight star, And African Boxing Union Welterweight Champion Larry Ekundayo, is the latest boxer to join Team MGM after signing a management deal.\u00a0Boasting an 11-0 record, Ekundayo already has an impressive list of names on his ledger and is aiming to extend that over the coming months.\u00a0The Welterweight division is full of top contenders&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}