Adijat Gbadamosi, Nigeria’s first female professional boxer to win a title, holding the African Super Bantamweight belt, has thrown a warning shot by stating that she is gunning to become Africa first female world boxing champion.
She is hoping for a shot at the world title in the U.S. later in the year.
Gbadamosi disclosed this today in an interview with the Peoples Gazette at an event organised by her promoters to herald her victory in the ABU title fight in Accra, Ghana.
Gbadamosi, still basking in the euphoria of her recent victory, said she is aiming at a world title fight after entering the history books as the first female Nigerian boxer to win the African Boxing Union (ABU) title.
The 2018 Youth Olympic Silver medalist scored a technical knockout (TKO) in five rounds over Zimbabwean soldier, Patience Mastara, in a scheduled 10 rounder to win the ABU Super Bantamweight title.
Speaking after the event, she said, “It was such a great moment when I won the bout and entered the…