{"id":346860,"date":"2025-12-15T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346860\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:24:08","slug":"british-and-indian-boxing-stars-arrive-in-ghana-ahead-of-sharaf-mahamas-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346860\/","title":{"rendered":"British and Indian boxing stars arrive in Ghana ahead of Sharaf Mahama\u2019s \u2018Showdown\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/British-and-Indian-boxing-stars-arrive-in-Ghana-ahead-of-Sharaf-Mahama-s-Showdown-2013748?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/79397884.295.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Richards (L) and Nishant Dev (R) have arrived in Ghana\" title=\"Craig Richards (L) and Nishant Dev (R) have arrived in Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"236\" \/> <\/a>Craig Richards (L) and Nishant Dev (R) have arrived in Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana\u2019s boxing fans were treated to a star-studded welcome on Monday, December 15, 2025, as British light heavyweight champion Craig Richards and India\u2019s rising sensation Nishant Dev arrived at Kotoka International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The two are set to feature in Legacy Rise Sports\u2019 \u201cThe Showdown\u201d at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium on December 20, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Their arrival marks a significant boost for what promises to be the biggest boxing event of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The two international fighters were received with excitement. Earlier on Saturday, December 13, 2025, promoters Alex Ntiamoah and Sammy Anim Addo, alongside Sharaf Mahama, led a health walk to create awareness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Ghana-to-face-Germany-in-pre-World-Cup-friendly-2013741\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana to face Germany in pre-World Cup friendly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The card boasts thrilling bouts featuring Ghanaian prospects Theophilus Allotey, Sampson Segbedzi, Abdula, and headline matchups such as Freezy Macbones versus Worldwide, and Holy Dorgbetor versus John Laryea. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">British light heavyweight champion Craig Richards, a former WBA world title challenger and Indian brightest professional boxer and a stand out medalist at the 2023 World Championships, Nishant Dev, has arrived in Ghana ahead of Legacy Rise Sports\u2019 \u201cThe Showdown\u201d boxing bouts on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NVCGpm0YDH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NVCGpm0YDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The1957News (@The1957News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The1957News\/status\/2000456080636129518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 15, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>FKA\/JE<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Richards (L) and Nishant Dev (R) have arrived in Ghana Ghana\u2019s boxing fans were treated to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-346860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}