{"id":93479,"date":"2025-03-30T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93479"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:30:22","slug":"nigerian-boxer-olanrewaju-collapses-dies-during-fight-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93479","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian boxer, Olanrewaju, collapses, dies during fight in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Former National and West African light-heavyweight champion, Segun \u2018Success\u2019 Olanrewaju, has died after collapsing during a fight in Ghana on Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93482\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93482\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/download-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"179\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late Segun Olanrewaju.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Though ahead on points against the Ghanaian boxer, Jon Mbanugu, at Fight Night 15 of the Ghana Professional Boxing League at Bukom Boxing Arena Olanrewaju suddenly lost consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Curiously, there was no heavy punch to have necessitated his fall backward and landed his neck onn the ropes and then flipping over.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 368px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-93479-1\" width=\"368\" height=\"640\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VID-20250331-WA0000.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VID-20250331-WA0000.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VID-20250331-WA0000.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The referee had actually began counting Olanrewaju out when he observed something was amiss. He lifted the Nigerian boxer and quickly called in the medical team that worked on him to no avail. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He is believed to have passed on as a result of a cardiac arrest, though no official statement has not been issued yet by the Ghanaian boxing authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">A viral video on social media at\u00a0 https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DH0ImSAqJ6x\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">captures the moment he collapsed in the ring. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Olanrewaju held both National and West African light-heavyweight titles during his career.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_250330_182340_960.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National and West African light-heavyweight champion, Segun \u2018Success\u2019 Olanrewaju, has died after collapsing during a fight in Ghana on Saturday night. Though ahead on points against the Ghanaian boxer, Jon Mbanugu, at Fight Night 15 of the Ghana Professional Boxing League at Bukom Boxing Arena Olanrewaju suddenly lost consciousness. Curiously, there was no heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":93481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5716,96,7057],"class_list":["post-93479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-boxing","tag-ghana","tag-olanrewaju"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}