Two-time former Bantamweight World Champion, Jospeh ‘King Kong’ Agbeko has told Ghanaweb in an exclusive interview that boxing does not make people lose their sanity as some people err oneously believe.
Ridiculously, he said it’s women who drive men crazy and make them lose their faculties and not boxing. He blurted out thus; ‘I don’t agree with any of them,’ Agbeko said in reaction to a question on whether boxing can make one mad on the Sports Check show on Ghanaweb.
Continuing, the said; ‘Boxing can never make you mad, everything can make you mad. Even when your girl disappoints you, you can go mad or can kill.’ His stance is a stark contrast to what another professional Ghanaian boxer, Joshua Clottey once said about the sport.
Joshua Clottey, a former IBF Welterweight title holder said on UTV that boxing is a crazy sport and he won’t allow his son to follow in his footsteps even if he wanted to. ‘I have a son in the US, I will kill him if he decides to be a boxer.’ Clottey said.
‘Even my friend I will not advice him to be a boxer. That’s why I always tell people not to be jealous of boxers because our job is too tough. Boxing is natural, there’s no artificial. Everything you see is real. Sometimes after the rounds 5 and round 6 we feel like giving up but we go on because of we have to behave like men.
I learnt it when I was a child but I have grown to realize that it is too serious. There’s no joke in boxing. All the blows are real. Boxing is too much of a work and I will never advice anyone to become a boxer.
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
