After a successful outing on his debut fight in Asia, Nigeria’s Ridwan ‘Scorpion’ Oyekola has been arranged to face another Japanese opponent, Hikaru Fukunaga, on Sunday October 2 this year, in an international boxing challenge bout.
The featherweight division fight, according to Olusola Ayodele, the CEO of Core Afrique Boxing Promotions (COABOX), firm that is managing Oyekola, will take place at Ishikawa Multipurpose Dome, Uruma, Okinawa in Japan during the Mugen Idomu’s volume 18 boxing bouts series.
COABOX boss who is popularly known as Sola Ford further hinted that Scorpion is in good shape and in the right frame of mind to face the fierce Japanese fighter who has a record of six wins in his nine bouts boxing career.
“The fight is part of scheduled bouts arranged to boost the boxing record of Scorpion and better prepare him ahead of a bigger boxing engagement later this year. And I can assure you that he’s in a very good state of mind to make Nigeria proud again in the land of Asia,” said Ayodele.
He, however, added that COABOX is working hard to give other boxers under its management an international exposure to further enhance their boxing career which will serve as encouragement to Nigerian youths that are aspiring to embrace boxing as a source of livelihood.