Former Professional Boxer Azumah Nelson has revealed his childhood aspirations. According to the Ghanaian boxer Nelson, he wanted to become the President of Ghana but boxing came in the way. As a boxer, Nelson competed from 1979 to 2008 in 47 fights for both featherweight and super-featherweight. He is now retired but remains as one of Africa’s decorated pugilists.
Speaking on Tv XYX, Nelson mentioned that his childhood dream was too become the President of Ghana.
As a child you would say whatever you want to do. If I didn’t do boxing, I would want to be a president. I said what I wanted to do.
Mr. Azumah also shared interesting events which led him to boxing;
My dad loved boxing but my grandfather won’t allow him to go that far. When I was young, my dad took me out to watch a boxing match. When we got there, two small boys were fighting but one was older than the other. When they were done, I saw tears run down the small boy’s eyes and I felt the older one had cheated the small boy, so I told my dad I wanted to fight with the older boy and he said okay.
But I insisted on fighting right now, not knowing there was a process to go through before you can fight but I was thinking if it’s fighting then let’s go and fight now. I wanted to fight for the small boy.
