By Seyi Babalola\n<\/p>\n
Street hip-hop singer, Habeeb \u2018Portable\u2019 Badmus, claims his loss against Carter Efe at the Chaos in the Ring 4 event in Lagos was contrived to stop organisers from paying out billions of naira wagered on his triumph, saying he was stopped prematurely when he should have continued.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cheating. They couldn\u2019t pay the money, so they rigged it. We are the ones who won, so they ripped me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey couldn\u2019t pay the N23 billion that people bet on me. If Portable wins, they can never pay the money,\u201d the ZaZoo crooner said.\n<\/p>\n
He further claimed that the stoppage was unjustified, comparing his condition during the bout to his previous celebrity fights.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThey should have let us keep fighting. They said I was panting \u2014 I did the same against Charles Okocha.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll they should have done was pour water on me so I could go and beat him, but they said the fight was over,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Portable lost a unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the fight 27-30 in favour of Efe after three rounds.\n<\/p>\n
The defeat ended his era as celebrity boxing champion, having previously defeated Charles Okocha and Speed Darlington to win two titles.\n<\/p>\n
His objections went beyond finances, with the singer demanding what he described as streaming revenue from the event.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Seyi Babalola Street hip-hop singer, Habeeb \u2018Portable\u2019 Badmus, claims his loss against Carter Efe at the Chaos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82,241240,241243,3392,241239,241241,241242],"class_list":["post-649050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-sun-newspapers","tag-sunnewsonline-com","tag-the-sun","tag-the-sun-nigeria","tag-thesun","tag-thesun-ng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050","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=649050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}