BIG PREVIEW: BIRMINGHAM 2022
SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT 92kgs +
ENGLAND has struck super-heavyweight gold at five of the past six Commonwealth Games, and Delicious Orie carries their hopes in Birmingham.
The 25-year-old has been boxing’s poster boy for the Games. An articulate 6ft 6ins athlete with an economics degree, he has grown in confidence in the ring over recent months, winning bronze at May’s European Championships.
Indian southpaw Sagar Ahlawat looks a handful. The 21-year-old southpaw came from nowhere to qualify through the Indian trials with wins over Satish Kumar, who reached the last eight of the Tokyo Olympics, and Indian champion Narender Berwal.
Trinidad and Tobago veteran Nigel Paul won World Championship bronze last year and chunky Keddy Agnes was also there, representing Seychelles. Birmingham will be Agnes’ third Commonwealths; last time, he won bronze. Maxime Yegnono Njieyo represented Cameroon at last year’s Olympics.
The super-heavyweights were added to the Commonwealth Games in 1986 and Lennox Lewis won gold for Canada. Thirty-six years on, the colourful Jerome Feujio, fond of wearing a cowboy hat and dancing to
