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

By SPORTS CRUSDAER
Boxing Today In History: DK Poison Wins Ghanas First World Title
SEP 20, 2017 LISTEN

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.

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