Paa Tanzania – issue 103

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Professional boxing

Precision Air helping boxing spread its wings November’s Dar Fight Night is the latest in a series of international events putting the Tanzanian city on the world professional boxing map. Precision Air is part of the team ensuring both viewers and the big-name boxers have the time of their lives.

T

he sport of boxing is growing in popularity across the globe and Africa is key to

that development. The continent has produced some great world champions in years past, such as Corrie Sanders, of South Africa, who won the WBO Heavyweight belt by knocking out Wladimir Klitschko in

fighters such as homegrown super

2003, and Ghanaian Ike Quartey,

welterweight Hassan Mwakinyo.

who is a former WBA Welterweight

The events mark a successful intro-

champion boxer who fought

duction into sports event manage-

numerous other world champion

ment for Jackson Sports Group, which

boxers with Oscar ‘The Golden Boy’

started out as a boutique marketing

De La Hoya being the most notable.

agency.

Sports were hit hard in this era

Jackson Group Sport CEO Kelvin

of Covid-19 with some of the most

Twissa said: “Branching out from

anticipated international events,

the Jungle’, the name coined for

Precision Air

including the Tokyo Olympics and

the historic match-up between

the Euros football tournament, being

Muhammad Ali and George Foreman

International fighters recieved a world class service

delayed a full year.

in Kinshasa, in what is now the

many long days and many sleepless

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

nights trying to find the right reasons

Tough times

being solely a marketing agency and moving into the sport scene was never an easy step and it took us

Two ‘Rumble in Dar’ boxing nights

to bring around a sports agency that

Amid these tough times for sport,

have been held at the Next Door Area

would flip the market on its head and

Tanzania has begun to tap into the

in Tanzania’s biggest city and another

improve the sports scene as a whole

boxing market. Jackson Group Sports

event, ‘Dar Fight Night’ is scheduled for

in Tanzania.

is leading the way with its series of big-

the same venue in November. Boxing

name boxing nights ‘Rumble in Dar’.

fans have been treated to some

ence to Dar has always been our

exciting bouts between big-name

number one goal.”

The title is a twist on ‘Rumble in

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“Bringing the [Las] Vegas experi-


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