Prepare for an actual shocker! Former heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi, who final fought 25 lengthy years in the past, this when he scored a nasty but on the similar time massively spectacular fifth spherical knockout over Chris Byrd, is to combat once more – at age 51. As per a narrative on Boxing Social, with the bout up and listed on invaluable website BoxRec, Ibeabuchi will face Ayman Farouk Abbas, 4-10-1(1), in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
The combat is scheduled for December twenty fourth, over six rounds and Abbas of Egypt is 47 years of age and coming off two straight losses. Nevertheless, in March of this yr, in what proved to be a bizarre combat that came about in Cairo, at the least it was actually a weirdly scored combat, Abbas held Christopher Lovejoy to a draw, this regardless of being decked within the combat and showing to lose nearly the entire rounds.
Now, with the phrase bizarre on the market, what on earth can we count on to see when Ibeabuchi, 20-0(15) steps into the ring with Abbas? Followers know the Ibeabuchi story, how he was seen by many individuals as presumably the following nice heavyweight, his thrilling struggle with David Tua recognised as a modern-day basic, his KO of Byrd really beautiful to see. However then Ibeabuchi started appearing unusually, with him reportedly listening to voices popping out of the air-conditioning, with the extremely ranked fighter insisting on being addressed by his ring nickname of “The President.”
After which Ibeabuchi was jailed for doing unspeakable issues to a name lady in Las Vegas. Combating for years and years to get out of jail and be capable of field once more, Ibeabuchi now has his want. It’s, nevertheless, nearly actually far too late for Ibeabuchi to have the ability to come near selecting up the place he left off manner again in March of 1999.
However followers will watch the upcoming combat, merely out of sheer curiosity. If, that’s, there’s any TV or web protection of the combat. What sort of form, mentally in addition to bodily, Ibeabuchi is in in the present day we are able to solely guess. How a lot, if something, can Ibeabuchi presumably regain of his previous type?
How far Ike will get on this wholly surprising comeback we are able to additionally solely guess at.
