{"id":96369,"date":"2025-09-29T21:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96369"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:39:40","slug":"its-better-to-be-safe-than-take-risks-nsa-on-suspending-boxing-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96369","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s better to be safe than take risks \u2013 NSA on suspending boxing activities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, has defended the decision to suspend boxing activities in the country.<\/p>\n

The suspension followed the tragic death of professional boxer Ernest \u201cBahubali\u201d Akushey, who passed away shortly after his bout.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with JoySports, Ampofo Ankrah said the Authority was not prepared to take chances with the safety of boxers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re not sure, it\u2019s better to be safe than to risk saying a boxer has died because we took chances and looked away. None of us would want that. I\u2019m very sympathetic to the cancelled bouts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also called on stakeholders to appreciate the decision and collaborate in making the sport safer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want stakeholders to understand that this is not just about two fighters going at each other. It\u2019s far bigger than that. Let us broaden our scope, spread it beyond what happens in the ring, and act on the advice of key stakeholders, who were very clear that we needed to take drastic measures,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The NSA is expected to name a new interim Boxing Management in the coming days who will sanction boxing bouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"It\u2019sDirector General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, has defended the decision to suspend boxing activities in the country. The suspension followed the tragic death of professional boxer Ernest \u201cBahubali\u201d Akushey, who passed away shortly after his bout. Speaking in an interview with JoySports, Ampofo Ankrah said the Authority was not prepared [\u2026]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2116,1883,2363,10,9,2364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing","category-national","category-nsa","category-politics","category-popular","category-yaw-ampofo-ankrah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}