Ghanaian boxer Freezy Macbones, who competes in the UK, feels cheated after losing to Seydou Konate of Senegal in the 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers in Dakar.
The 33-year-old was one of the 12 boxers who competed for Ghana and were all eliminated before they could all qualify for the Olympics.
Freezy Macbones was eliminated early after losing to Konate in the Round of 32 of the middleweight (80 kg) division.
When the boxer spoke about the fight for the first time, he claimed he felt defrauded and insisted that he had defeated his Senegalese opponent.
He continued by saying that switching from professional to amateur boxing did not benefit him either.
“There is a lot whole change moving from pro boxer back to amateur boxer,” Freezy Macbones told Code Mickey in an interview.
“In a pro fight, nobody cares what you’re going to do. You can slip or even do your dance. But amateur is different and there are so many rules to follow.
“Believe me or not, I won the fight. I won the first round and second round. In the third round, guess what happened? They took a point from me because I used the pro-style.”
Freezy Macbones will have to earn his spot in the upcoming Olympic Games qualifiers in Thailand and Italy by competing against local boxers, according to the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF).
Freezy Macbones won’t be given an automatic spot this time, according to the First Vice-President of the GBF, Dauda Fuseini, because other local boxers also deserve the chance to stake out their claims.
“Now Freezy will have to slug it out with the rest of the light heavyweights here because we have given him one opportunity already and we believe there are other boxers who are behind looking for such opportunity.
“So I think we have to get him involved with them, slug it out with them to see if we still think that he is the best in that division to represent the country,” GBF First Vice-President Fuseini told the Graphic Sport.
