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Okwiri books Boxing Day date with Ghanaian

Kenya's Rayton Okwiri (left) and Pascal Bruno of Tanzania fight in middle weight 8 rounds bout in Nairobi on 24th March, 2019. [photo courtesy]

Former Africa Boxing Union super middleweight champion Rayton Okwiri has secured a World Boxing Federation Africa super middleweight title fight against Joshua Allotey of Ghana in Accra, on December 26.

After a series of aborted fights, which Okwiri needed in order to get favourable rankings by global professional bodies that could catapult him to a world title, the match against Allotey, whose record stands at 16-10-0, couldn't have come at a better time for the Kenyan boxer.

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