Ghana can produce more world champions-Ike Quartey

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Former WBA Welterweight champion ,Ike Quartey is confident of Ghana producing more world champions in future.
According to the boxing legend, the country is endowed with talented boxers but wants them to be taken through steps in their career to gain exposure.
Quartey is a former Ghanaian professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006. He held the WBA welterweight title from 1994 to 1998, and challenged once for IBF junior-middleweight title in 2000.
Hard punching Quartey moved up slowly demonstrating power as well as that Bazooka jab.
“Most of our boxers were not taken through the Commonwealth and Olympic Games and they are struggling”.
“I believe all the great boxers in the world participated in these competitions and gained exposure  before becoming professionals”, he added.
Quartey was considered in the top league of the welterweight division alongside great names such as Oscar Delahoya, Pernell Whitaker, and Felix Trinidad.