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Portable, Carter Efe face off ahead Friday clash\u2026 Credit: Peter Akinbo<\/p>\nSocial media stars Habeeb \u2018Portable\u2019 Badmus and Carter Efe traded fresh threats ahead of their celebrity boxing bout at Chaos in the Ring 4, as the main event fighters Ezra Arenyeka and Godday Appah also exchanged sharp words at a face-off ahead of the May 1 card at the Balmoral Hall, Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.\n<\/p>\n
Portable, who previously beat both Charles Okocha and Speed Darlington in celebrity exhibition bouts to win two belts, made clear he intended to add a third at Efe\u2019s expense.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI will use you to collect my third belt. Charles Okocha was bigger than you, Speed Darlington was bigger than you and I beat them. I will beat you now,\u201d he told Efe directly.\n<\/p>\n
Efe was unmoved, dismissing Portable\u2019s record and warning that the bout would be brief.<\/p>\n
Portable, Carter Efe face off ahead Friday clash\u2026 Credit: Peter Akinbo<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t beat me. You that is scared of me \u2014 when we meet in the ring, I will beat you. One punch and you fall,\u201d he fired back.\n<\/p>\n
In the main event, Arenyeka and Appah, whose bout is billed as a symbolic WBO Peace Fight between the Itsekiri and Ijaw communities of the Niger Delta, set aside any goodwill between them at the face-off.\n<\/p>\n
Appah was unsparing in his assessment of what awaited his opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were friends but there is no friendship in the ring. Right now, I am fighting for my belt, for my people and for the win. He knows who the king is. I am here for the knockout \u2014 this is war. You will not survive six rounds with me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Arenyeka replied without hesitation saying, \u201cI am going to break your head. You said six rounds \u2014 I will beat you in five. You will sleep in the ring.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the card, Ghana\u2019s Elvis Ahorgah and Newcastle\u2019s Joe Laws added their own flavour to proceedings, with Ahorgah delivering his threats in rhyme in the manner of Muhammad Ali, while Laws painted his face in the colours of the Nigerian flag in a bid to win over the home crowd against a fighter from a rival nation.\n<\/p>\n
British southpaw Michael McKinson, whose father is of Nigerian descent, also features on the card against Algerian prospect Mohammad Sahnoun and said he was looking forward to making a statement while soaking in the Nigerian culture.\n<\/p>\n
Balmoral Group Promotions CEO Ezekiel Adamu said the face-offs reflected the broader ambition behind the event.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s entertainment, but I want these young guys to trust me that the world is watching. When you have a platform like this, it changes lives. This is what it is all about for us: giving these guys the opportunity and visibility and showing the best of African boxing. It\u2019s wartime and let\u2019s show the world what we have to offer here in Africa,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The nine-bout card, promoted by Balmoral Group Promotions in association with former world heavyweight champion Amir Khan\u2019s AK Promotions and sanctioned by the Nigeria Boxing Board of Control, will be broadcast live worldwide on DAZN.<\/p>\n
It also features teenage sensation Raheem Animashaun against Tanzanian veteran Emmanuel Amos, national middleweight champion Rasheed Adeyemo against Tanzanian Nicolaus Mdoe, Basit Adebayo against Loren Japhet, UK-based Ghanaian Samuel Antwi against Congolese veteran Paul Kamanga, and a welterweight clash between Seun Wahab and Saidi Mkola.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media stars Habeeb \u2018Portable\u2019 Badmus and Carter Efe traded fresh threats ahead of their celebrity boxing bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[34482,215773,703,49,48,215774,49075,215775,2174,238443,59821,181247,33549,82],"class_list":["post-638391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-amir-khan","tag-balmoral-group-promotions","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carter-efe","tag-celebrity-boxing","tag-chaos-in-the-ring","tag-dazn","tag-ezra-arenyeka","tag-lagos","tag-nigerian-boxing","tag-portable","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638391","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=638391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}