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Commonwealth Games 2022: Nigeria’s Benson Floors Ghanaian Opponent in Boxing

Team Nigeria’s Adeyinka Benson punched his way into the quarter-finals of the boxing event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after outboxing Ghana’s Abubakari Quartey.

Benson edged out Quartey three points to two in the keenly-contested middleweight Round of 16 contest.

Adeyinka Benson
Adeyinka Benson (right)

The Nigerian pugilist will now take on either Sam Hickey of Scotland or Kyghan Mortley from Saint Lucia in the quarter-finals.

It would be recalled that another Nigerian boxer, Abdul-Afeez Osoba secured a first-round knockout against Carl Hield, to advance into the round of 16 on Saturday.

Osoba will battle Welsh man, Garan Croft for a place in the quarter-finals.

Team Nigeria have won two medals at the Games with Olarinoye Adijat winning a gold medal in the weightlifting event.

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