Flykite Productions, promoters of the GOtv Boxing Night, have assured fans coming to the event on 15 March of maximum protection.

Speaking with journalists in Lagos Tuesday, Jenkins Alumona, Managing Director, Flykite Productions, said boxing fans have nothing to fear, as the organisers have made arrangements to ensure protection from any unsavoury experience in and around the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos, venue of the event.

Isaac Ekpo (L) Super Middle Weight Boxing Champion with his Coach, Seidu Kalifa, in training at the National Stadium In Lagos recently.

Security, Alumona said, will be provided by KSquare Security, a top class security firm with vast experience in events on the scale of GOtv Boxing Night.

GOtv Boxing Night, a six-bout professional boxing event sanctioned by the Nigerian Boxing Board of Control (NBB of C) in its second edition, is conceived to arrest the decline boxing is currently experiencing in Nigeria.

The second edition, tagged “The Return”, is a massive upgrade on the first.

It will feature fights in various weight categories, with the biggest being

the West African Featherweight title clash between Waidi “Skoro” Usman, who emerged National Featherweight champion at the maiden edition of the GOtv Boxing Night, and Ghana’s Alfred “Ahwor” Qauye. The fight will last 12 rounds.

Also huge is the bout betwen Adewale “Tiger” Abbey, National Heavyweight champion, who will defend his title against Tope “Young” Ogunshinusi over 12 rounds.

Fights on the cards also include the 10-round National Light Middleweight elimination fight between Jamiu Animashaun and Wahab “Hammer” Adebisi; as well as the National Light Welterweight elimination contest between Waliu Arogundade and Olaide “Fijaborn” Fijabi.

Other fights are the Light Middleweight challenge between Sunday “Capo” Olalekan and Tombraye “Tornado” Christmas as well the Lightweight challenge between Otto “Joe Boy” Joseph and Kehinde Badmus.

All the fights will be broadcast live on SuperSport.

The event, which is sponsored by GOtv, Custodian Life Assurance Plc, Paragonis Multimedia Productions and KSquare Security and Zetaweb, will start at 4PM.