Mayweather’s visit to Ghana: What’s in it for us?

On June 15, Floyd Mayweather will arrive in Ghana in the gentle cunning smile he wears anytime he tears his opponents apart in the ring.
With 49 fights without a defeat, 24 of which came through a knockout, the Playboy Mayweather has every right to embark on an “Undisputed Tour” of Africa, his “Motherland” as he puts it.
It will be two nights in Ghana with the champion, the money man who many times turned the dreaded boxing ring into a boxing clinic and forced his sworn enemies into sparring partners.
With his deadly left hand and a super quick right, Mayweather sent Ricky to the canvass, left Cotto crumbled and subjected many of his opponents to a thorough one sided beating.
Fast and furious in the ring, cheery and benevolent outside it, Mayweather will connect with his roots on his “Undisputed Tour” in Africa, Ghana, after bowing out of a hugely successful boxing career in 2015, a career many consider as the greatest of all time.

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He will not be the first boxing legend to pay Ghana a visit but his, is special in many significant respects.




He comes at a time when Ghana’s boxing, a once popular sport, has taken an audacious dip with no World Champion yet to report. But this is a country that had, at a point, three world titles  after Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey and Nana Yaw Konadu did to their opponents what Mayweather enjoyed doing.

Interestingly, the sport is not lacking in talents; it is rather hungry and thirsty for resources to feed its many greatest potentials.

So if Upscale Entertainment is collaborating with the Multimedia Group and other partners to bring the legendary boxer to Ghana, his second time in Africa, after a 2014 visit to South Africa, many well meaning Ghanaians are asking, what are stakeholders doing to leverage on the huge benefits a once-in-a-lifetime-visit like this will have for Ghana?

Roni Boateng, the CEO of Upscale entertainment, the certified event organizers in Ghana, could not have said it any better when she said “Mayweather will bring a lot of attention to Ghana with this historic visit and we are excited about that.”

On his 2014 visit to South Africa and dwarfed by two huge members of his contingent, the money man became the icon, a champion of peace, an ambassador against youth violence in a country where xenophobic attacks were rampant at the time. He did many things there but could do far more here in a country whose new president is talking of trade instead of aid.

One of the richest sports man in the world who walks his talk, Mayweather was damn right when he was quoted as saying “Why must I give to Africa?” Why must he when Africa on its own can stand without it been spoon fed by development partners.

Source:Myjoyonline