The Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF), managers of the national boxing teams has organised a press conference on Friday, October 2 to inform the media on the Black Bombers (male team) plans and preparations towards the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
As part of their programme, the Black Bombers will engage the Golden Gloves team of Detroit, USA in an international friendly boxing competition dubbed ‘Fist of Fury’ at the Bukom Boxing Arena on Saturday. October 10, 2026.
Vice President of the GBF Nii Gonti Adjor 1 aka Nii Adama Addy said Ghana is set to qualify for the next Olympic Games in 2028 with at least four boxing, however 10 weight categories will be given opportunity in the encounter.
He hinted that boxing fans have to pay a token to watch the next generation of boxing stars.
Mr. Mustapha Nettey, Treasurer of the GBF appealed to corporate Ghana to support the Black Bombers to realise their Olympic dreams. He expressed that the engagement is to promote cooperation and partnership to boast sports, culture and tourism.
International Technical Official (ITO) George Lamptey, former President of the GBF who is a board member of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) who chaired the press conference assured that the current Black Bombers squad has been strengthened with experienced boxers like 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist, Joseph Commey aka ‘Jaguar’ and Henry Malm aka ‘Assassin Jnr’.
Present were some boxers like Ebenezer Ankrah, Amadu Mohammed and Mathias Ashitey who promised to give good accounts of themselves.
Some members of the new leadership of the technical staff of the team were introduced.
Coach Vincent Akai Nettey was hopeful that the Black Bombers will excel and move on to represent Ghana at the 2026 African Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Congo.
By Sammy Heywood Okine