▪️Seasoned warriors Abdul Wahid Omar and Amadu Mohammed bubbling with confidence ahead of 2025 National Individual Championships explosive showndown
February 27, 2026
The wait is over. Weeks of relentless agonizing roadwork and hard sparring sessions have culminated to this big day in Ghana boxing.
Yes it’s today from 6pm at the famous Bukom Boxing Arena, the venue for the highly anticipated finals of the 2025 National Individual Amateur Boxing Championships.
Finalists will step into the ring not just as boxers but as warriors aiming to etch their names into boxing immortality.
Hearts are pounding. And the stakes are high because the winners will make Ghana’s national team to participate in major events this year among them the Commonwealth Games and IBA Africa Elite Men’s and Women’s Championships.
The atmosphere at Bukom Arena will definitely be electric, filled with the sound of local drumming, screaming coaches and wildly enthusiastic supporters carrying flags and others with painted faces. This isn’t just a fight. It’s a national pride event.
With most of the top boxers moving to pro boxing, the two senior international boxers in the ring today will be African Games bantamweight champion Amadu Mohammed and two-times Commonwealth Games medallist Abdul Wahid Omar who won bronze at flyweight in Glasgow 2014 and Birmingham 2022 in the light-welterweight division.
A quarter-finalist at the 2023 Men’s World Championships, Amadu Mohamed was looking forward to improve on his performance in the 2025 Men’s Worlds in Dubai but was eliminated in the pre-quarters by the eventual bronze medallist, Uzbekistan’s Asilbek Jalilov after seeing off India’s Manoj Kumar 5-0 in the round of 32.
The southpaw Amadu, representing Sea View, has now moved up to featherweight, and will square it out with Reginald Lamptey of C.Q.B.F Club.
At 32 years, 2016 Olympian Abdul Wahid Omar has a wealth of experience under his belt. He will therefore be in no mood to be humiliated by his Wisdom Boxing Gym teammate Henry Owusu.
With their sterling show in the 2025 Africa Youth Championships behind them, the three gold medallists in Guinea, flyweight George Dowouna, bantamweight Mathew Ashittey and middleweight Desmond Pappoe are ready to graduate to the senior team.
Boxing for Will Power, Dowouna meets Ibrahim Doku of Black Panthers, Ashittey, who’ll represent Black Panthers, has a mountain to climb against the never-say-die Caleb Mensah of Wisdom Gym while Pappoe, representing Jamestown Boxing Club, will trade leather against Khalid of Fit Square.
There’s also World Youth Championships quarter-finalist Ebenezer Ankrah knocking on the doors of the senior team. He battles Wisdom Gym’s James Okoe at lightweight.
Tonight’s event is crucial for the new Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) executive under President Alhaji Dauda Fuseni having unveiled their new logo on Thursday, February 26 to signal the beginning of a new chapter in Ghana boxing.
