BUKOM BOXING ARENA
The Bukom Boxing Arena is the flagship facility of the Trust Sports Emporium. It’s an open air, 4000 seater capacity sports facility which can host several events including boxing, basketball, volleyball, tennis and musical performances. It can also host social and corporate events. The seats are terraced to sixteen levels with the additional opportunity to add-on a few hundred seats depending on the event. The arena floor has been constructed to facilitate the mounting of moveable games and events installations.The Bukom Boxing Arena has a VIP Lounge, a Press Box, a First-Aid Clinic, Changing Rooms, Retail Shops and a Boxing Hall of Fame.The facility is named after Bukom in Ga Mashie, the Ga traditional quarter of Accra or Old Accra, which is noted worldwide for producing boxing world champions. Bukom has over the centuries nurtured its youth through the Ga Akutsei Atsure competitions which provided an easy and hugely successful introduction into the noble art of self-defence, Boxing. Some of Bukom’s heros are Floyd Klutei Robertson, Roy Ankrah, Attuquaye Clottey, David Kotei Poison, Professor Azumah Nelson, Ike Bazooka Quartey, Joshua Clottey, Alfred Kotey and Nana Yaw Konadu.
Akotoku Academy
In the heart of the bustling Jamestown area of Accra sits a boxing treasure called Akotoku Boxing Academy, home of Ghana’s world champions, is still regarded among the best in the country.For nearly 50 years, Akotoku has produced some of the world’s greatest boxers. Founded in 1974 by the late Francis Attuquaye Clottey, Akotoku is where legends such as Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey, David “Poison” Kotey and Alfred Kotey honed their craft.Nelson, one of the greatest fighters of his era, is an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee. Quartey was a mainstay in the welterweight division, holding the WBA 147-pound world title from 1994-1997. In 1975, David Kotey became Ghana’s first world champion by defeating Ruben Olivares to win the WBC world featherweight title. Alfred Kotey briefly held a world bantamweight strap.Akotoku is still going strong today. Ten boxers currently call the gym home, all working under the guidance of head trainer Theophilus Edwin Addo.Addo stresses the importance of putting in work to his pupils. The trainer would know, having risen from timekeeper to assistant trainer under the respected Robert Marquaye Laryea, who eventually handed over lead trainer duties to Addo.“I remember my boss traveling during the Mortein Boxing League,” Addo told BoxingAfrica.com. “I eventually took charge of the boxers to win the league and ended up becoming the head coach.“I have the difficult task of not only producing world champions for Ghana but to ensure the legacy of the academy lives on. We have produced the best boxer of all time in Africa aside from three other world champions and I am glad to be continuing the legacy.”Much of that success is owed to the late Clottey, who Azumah once described as “One of the greatest boxing coaches Ghana has ever produced.”Clottey was a respected boxer in Ghana who became a trainer upon retirement. He was the lead trainer of the Black Bombers, the national amateur boxing squad. His sons, Hector Clottey and Judas Clottey followed his steps, winning national titles.
Wisdom Boxing Gym
Wisdom Boxing Gym is an Educational Fitness Institution which transforms the lives and bodies all sort of Individuals with physical fitness and boxing.We run three main programs: Boxing Training, Personal Fitness and Customized Boot Camps for groups.Wisdom Boxing Gym was established in 1993 by Dr. (Coach) Ofori Asare with 3 boxers (Tony Danso; Ben Odametey and Gideon Annor).The premier team was followed by Ashiakwei Aryee and others.Since its inception, the institution has trained over 500 boxers who have represented and won medals for Ghana at various National and International Tournaments.Wisdom boxing Gym boxers have won medals for Ghana at the African level and Commonwealth games. We also have boxers who have participated in the Olympics games.Several of our boxers have appeared in the World Professional Boxing Rankings and had the opportunity of fighting for a world title.The institution currently has an extensive inventory of 30 amateur boxers, 10 professional boxers including Bastie ‘The Beast’ Samir, Alligator and 7 coaches. There are other members in administrative departments. In the near future, we plan to expand to regions in and outside Ghana.As an AIBA accredited international coaching instructor, Dr. Asare has been touring and teaching in other countries.Source-Wisdom Boxing Gym
Sonia Sports Academy
Mr. Joseph Nii Armah Quayefio, popularly known as Coach Swizz believes Sonia Sports Academy will lead the De-luxy Professional Boxing to the finish, because they will not lose guard or slip to be overtaken.Sonia Gym at Ussher Town in Accra was founded in 2007 by sports enthusiast Joseph Nii Armah Quayefio, and by his own efforts and a few loved ones he has been able to maintain till now.‘Coach Swiss’ as he is called said he founded the Sonia Sports Academy to encourage the youth to develop their sports talents. Though boxing is the big thing in Accra, Sonia welcomes all sports men and women.According to Coach Quayefio, a member of Friends of Boxing, he is the only trainer to win the WBO intercontinental super Featherweight in Glasgow for Ghana with Madingo from Chorkor.Marcel Tetteh, Robert Okine and Physical instructor George Stewart are the gym training assistants who have supported Swizz to produce his stars.Another popular boxer at Sonia is WBA Pan African champion, Ebenezer Tetteh.Quayefio is the brain behind the success of heavyweight boxer Richard Harrison Lartey, as he was with him when it mattered from the beginning.One boxer Coach Quayefio is looking up to is Mawuli Folivi, the Super. Middleweight Champion of Ghana.Ezekiel Annan is also a Featherweight with promise.“We are the king of boxing in Accra and will prove it , we do the work, not the talk” he expressed.
Spartan Boxing Club
Boxing Coach Supriser SowahAccording to some sources, Roy Ankrah was born in Jamestown, Ghana in 1923; however other sources have listed him as being born in 1925. His aunt raised Ankrah after the death of his mother. He soon became known as a street fighter and won the regional school championship at the age of 12. By this time, Ankrah was already working as a mechanic in his uncle's auto repair shop. He won his first professional fight at the age of 17.
General Post Office
It's the Headquarters of Ghana Post. It is located in the Odododiodoo constituency in Accra Central. It is Opposite the Opera Square. It also houses the Post ...Some of the first organised Boxing matches were fought here in the 1920s
Volunteer Force Boxing Gym
The Gym, Osikan Park
Discipline Boxing Gym
Black Panther Boxing Gym
Attoh Quarshie Boxing Gym
“No Pain, No Guts, No Wits, No Will, No Gain, No Glory” -these are what makes Attoh Quarshie Boxing Gym boxers special.Founded in 1981, the Attoh Quarshie Boxing Gym is one of the most respected and honored gyms in Accra, Ghana when it comes to training and grooming of talented boxers.They made history by winning the maiden Mortein Boxing League in Ghana with Kotey Ashie receiving the Best Boxer Award.The founding fathers are the late veteran politician Attoh Quashie (owner) and international boxing referee and judge Robert Teddy Lamptey (Head Trainer), men of vision and passion for boxing.The popular gym located at James Town at the City Engineers premise has transformed the likes of Charles Adamu, James Toney, Anyetei Laryea and Joseph Agbeko under the late coach Dzanie Kotey aka ‘Alloway’ who left the gym in the charge of young enterprising Vincent Akai Nettey.Currently they boast of four coaches taking care of 54 boxers.The major challenges of the gym are financial and equipment to train, says Akai Nettey.Some of the popular boxers who have made names in recent times are former IBF Welterweight champion Joshua Clottey, George Ashie, Obodai Sai, Emmanuel Martey, Isaac Sackey, Samuel Yaw Addo, Akimos Annan Appiah and David Bawa.With no sponsors they find it difficult but cope with the situation, however they will embrace sponsorship in any form if it is possible and positive.Current head coach Vincent Akai Nettey is motivated by the passion for boxing and he believes that he can create more world champions for Ghana.The breakdown of boxers at Attoh Quarshie is 12 Professionals, 20 Amateurs and 22 Juvenile boxers.Coach Akai Nettey said the future is with the young boxers and they have time for the kids.His message to boxing fans is to thank them for being with them to this far, and encouraged them to continue to support the gym and the boxers every time.He expressed that the doors of Attoh Quarshie Boxing Gym are open to corporate bodies to come and support.He thanked the media and recommended the formation of the Boxing Writers Association of Ghana (BWAG) as it will go a long way to promote Ghana Boxing.By Sammy Heywood Okine
St Edmund House
The Family home of James Bannerman whose son Edmund Bannerman learnt to box in England where he had been sent to School to be a Lawyer. An instrumental figure in the development of the Boxing on his return to the Gold Coast after his studies.
Bronx Boxing Gym
Bronx Boxing Gym
Ellen House
The site of where Accra Academy started.
