We are not developing boxing as a country - Former boxer Kofi Jantuah

Former Ghanaian boxing giant Kofi Jantuah who retired more than a decade ago from the boxing scene has bemoaned the slow pace of boxing development in the country.

He says government has committed very little resources in the development of the game of the fist.

In his prime in the 90's, Kofi Jantuah fought against the likes of Kassim Ouma for the IBF light middleweight world title, Dmitry Pirog, Daniel Santos, Donny McCrary, Jaime Manuel Gomez, and Marco Antonio Rubio with wins against Santos, McCrary, and Rubio.

After his retirement the boxer from Kumasi who proved that the Ashanti Region can boast of pugilist is now domiciled in the USA,Las Vegas, Nevada where he is a boxing trainer with the Floyd Money Mayweather Team (TMT).

"We are not into boxing development and that is the work of the government to do that, ours is to scout for good boxers so that we can help them." he told Kumasi based Akoma FM.

"We have people in Ghana who have been doing the scouting for us and If you don't scout you won't get best boxers"

"I don't know any local boxer who is doing well apart from Richard Commey and Isaac Dogbe.

"They were doing well for some time but their last fights didn't go well but they are still young so they can prepare themselves well and come back stronger but  as for Patrick Allotey he is not a boxer because any good boxer will not fight outside the ring."

"Our development of  boxing in Ghana is some way and  government should work hard to address it." he added.