Today In History: DK Poison Wins Ghana’s First World Title

On September 20, 1975, David Kotei, better known as “DK Poison,” became Ghana’s first ever world champion, capturing the WBC World featherweight title with a 15-round split decision win over Ruben Olivares at the forum in Inglewood, California.

The Ghanaian defended the belt three times – he defeated David Sotelo, Flipper Uehara and Shig Fukuyama.

Unfortunately he lost his belt to Danny Lopez courtesy a unanimous decision on November 6, 1976 at the Accra Sports Stadium.