Alake Sports Centre to host inaugural RIYE Junior Boxing Championship

The RIYE Junior Boxing Championship has been scheduled to be held on October 25, 2026.
The organizers of the Boxing Championship announced that the first edition of the tournament will take place at the Alake Sports Centre, Ijeja, Abeokuta, in Ogun State.

The Boxing Championship is expected to feature 24 young boxers selected from the four zones of Ogun State: Remo, Ijebu, Yewa, and Egba.

The Tournament was coordinated by the Tunde Delu Initiative.

Each zone is to present six athletes: four male and two female participants to make a total of 16 male and eight female athletes.

The Championship will feature about 12 bouts, with eight bouts involving male boxers.
The female boxers will compete in four bouts across various age and weight categories.

The event organizers, Honourable Tunde Delu, said the aim of the Boxing Championship is to provide young boxers with a platform to develop their skills.

Hon. Delu said the championship is for athletes to gain competitive experience and showcase their talents.

He added that the Boxing Championship would also provide an opportunity for individuals, organizations, and other stakeholders to support the development of grassroots boxing in Ogun State.

The Boxing Championship is expected to be attended by former national and international boxing champions, alongside experienced boxing coaches.

The coaches will lend their support to the young athletes to build their competitive boxing experience.

The Tunde Delu and RIYE collaboration

The RIYE Junior Boxing Championship is part of the Tunde Delu Initiative’s continued commitment to youth sports development, grassroots talent discovery, and the creation of opportunities for young athletes to develop their potential.

The tournament is also in line with the Young Athletes Yield Initiative (YAYI) scheme.

The RIYE Under-15 Athletics

Championship across the Remo, Ijebu, Yewa and Egba zones of Ogun State was recently organized by the Tunde Delu Initiative under the Young Athletes Yield Initiative (YAYI) scheme.

The athletics championship attracted more than 2,000 young athletes from over 200 schools across the state, reinforcing the initiative’s focus on discovering and nurturing sporting talents from the grassroots.

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Nigerian-born former two-time world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Olaseni Oluwafemi Joshua, has gained support from a legend of the sport, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson for his November 20 ‘Battle of Brits’ versus Tyson Fury to take place in London, though USA provides equal values.

Sports247 reports that, while Tyson admitted that any venue in America would equally have a large number of British fans flood the arena in thousands, he reckoned that it would be better on British soil, since Joshua and Fury hail from the United Kingdom.

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Tyson’s verdict would come as a soothing balm for Joshua and his camp, who insist that the contract they signed for the much-expected fight with Fury this year indicated that the bout must take place in the UK, but marketing benefits are now shifting its venue towards USA.

Marketers, organisers and broadcasters of the big fight, including Netflix and Saudi fight financier, Turki Alalshikh, have repeatedly restated that they prefer the bout to take place in America, in order to capitalise on commercial dividends that are bound to arise from prime-time US viewing.

In contrast with that argument, Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn is battling hard to keep the venue on British soil, but latest reports indicate that he might have reluctantly agreed to revised terms that will allow the epic bout go to Uncle Sam’s Country.

Tyson, who fought twice in the UK, where he knocked out Julius Francis in Manchester in January 2000 before stopping Lou Savarese six months later in Glasgow, is banned from Britain, due to his 1992 rape conviction, but he is of a view that London would be an ideal venue for the grudge bout.

The record youngest ever heavyweight champ in history told Daily Mail: “It’s going to be a great fight (and) it’s going to be great for boxing. I think they both have enough in them once they get the desire.

“They’re both English and, if they come here, all the English people are going to come anyway. So, you’re home already, let’s do it there! They’re going to come to the United States – it’s going to be full of English people.

“It’s just going to be just like it is over there. There ain’t going to be many Americans there because they’ll sell it out. Even though I can’t go – I’m barred from London – I think London should get the fight.”

Sports247 reports further that it promises to be a swansong of song for 38-year-old Fury, who heads into the bout after a fishy seven-round win over 46-year-old Mariusz Wach in Thailand, while 36-year-old Joshua also got a mysterious victory as well just 24 hours later.

‘AJ’ overcame a scare after being dropped twice in the first round by a little-known 35-yerar-old Albanian, Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before the former champ got a second-round knockout, but Tyson believes both aging Brits still have enough to excite fight fans in November.

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Nigerian-born youthful boxer, Moses Itauma, has started his official countdown to this Saturday’s world title fight with a creative promotional video on social media, highlighting his training and relaying comments regarding his ambition in the ring.

Sports247 reports that the boxer with a Nigerian father and mother from Slovakia is already being hyped as ‘the latest real deal in boxing history,’ but experts believe he will get his biggest test so far when he steps into the ring in London against Filip Hrgovic of Croatia.

As the countdown gets tighter to the International Boxing Federation (IBF) fight for the belt, which could make Itauma Britain’s youngest ever world champion, the Nigerian-born fighter has dropped a heart-pumping pre-fight trailer to herald his date with destiny.

‘The Chatham Clubber’ takes on the Croat for the vacant IBF heavyweight title, ahead of which DAZN released an epic pre-fight trailer for Itauma, in the same style as Nike’s iconic commercials to highlight the lad’s maiden world title bid, which will be broadcast live.

Fight experts also believe the bout could be the beginning of a new era in boxing’s heavyweight division, with Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury already on their way out, while British fans are eager to see the potential coronation of a new king of the ring reigning from their country.

A report by the UK’s SunSport revealed, “Ahead of the potential dawn of a new era, DAZN have released an epic trailer to promote the bout. The first-person-view trailer gives an insight into the daily life of the slick southpaw, including a boxer’s early-morning wake-up call to go for a run.

“The promo, which is shot in the style of Nike‘s iconic footie ads from the noughties, also features Itauma going through all the obligations of a sporting superstar. It sees the 21-year-old attending a photoshoot and a pre-fight press conference.

“Itauma also gets a taste of the high life by attending a swanky movie premiere in Leicester Square. The slickly shot promotional package ends with the knockout artist arriving at The O2 in a helicopter before striding to the ring for what could be the biggest fight of his career.”

Sports247 reports further that Itauma, who was born in Slovakia but fights out of Chatham, Kent, is an undefeated 21-year-old lethal southpaw boxing sensation widely regarded as the future of the division, as he has taken the sport by storm with his rare blend of explosive power and hand speed.

He is currently trained by Ben Davison and backed by Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, who have guided him to a professional record of 14 wins and no defeats (12 via knockout), after an amateur mark of 24 straight wins (11 KOs), following which he became a triple pro-champ.

Itauma has been champion with the Commonwealth, WBO Intercontinental and WBA International belts, following which he will become the second-youngest heavyweight world champion in boxing history, after Mike Tyson, if he wins on Saturday at The O2 Arena in London.

The British Young Boxer of the Year 2025 was born in Kežmarok, Slovakia, to a Nigerian father and Slovak mother, with his older sibling being light-heavyweight boxer Karol Itauma, who was the youngster’s first inspiration in the pugilist’s sport.

He and his family experienced racism in Slovakia and decided to migrate to England in search of new opportunities that the East European nation did not provide; so they moved to Chatham, Kent, when the new star of global heavyweight boxing was just three years old.

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