Pernell Whitaker vs. Oscar De La Hoya

I Couldn’t Walk For 2 Weeks After Fighting Ghanaian Boxer

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Former Super Featherweight and Welterweight champion, Oscar De La Hoya has disclosed that he could not walk for two weeks following his bout with Ghana’s Ike Quartey in the late 1990s. The Mexican-American boxer fought Ike Quartey in 1999 with his World Boxing Council welterweight title on the line in a bout widely regarded as one of the … Read more

Complete Biography & Profile of Ike Quartey,

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Ike Quartey was not as popular as Azumah Nelson, but he came up in the same tough streets that Nelson did. Quartey was also a great amateur from Ghana, just like Nelson and came up training in Nelson’s gym. Quartey turned pro the same year Azumah Nelson was winning the super-feather crown. The hard punching … Read more