Ahead of the GOtv Boxing Night 21, organizers have revealed that all 14 boxers who are set to participate in the seven bouts and their coaches will undergo COVID-19 tests, which the event scheduled to take place on November 27 at the Rowe Park Sports Centre in Lagos.
CEO of Flykite Productions, organisers of the event, Jenkins Alumona stated that the boxers and their coaches scheduled for GOtv Boxing Night 21 are required to take the tests in accordance with safety protocols prescribed by the authorities as the virus is still obviously raging from the infection data.
Alumona further poists that the sponsors who are big supporters of Nigeria’s efforts at curbing the virus spread and making society safer are making the test mandatory as they have graciously accepted to fund the tests, so as to ensure that boxers who get on the ring are free of the virus with considered as paramount.
Major sporting activities around the world have resumed and are available to fans only on television. Boxing fans will not miss much. They will see top-class boxing action by tuning into SuperSport on the day of the event.
Those scheduled for the tests are already at a location where the tests will be carried out by Clina-Lancet Laboratories, one of the medical diagnostic laboratories approved for the purpose by the Lagos State Government.
Boxers and coaches whose results are negative will then proceed to the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Gym, where they will be camped for two weeks before the event. During this period, they will be regularly visited by a medical team from a government hospital that will monitor compliance with safety measures.
Remarkably, the event will be behind closed doors but be broadcasted live across Africa on SuperSport.
