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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Paa Tanzania
“Bringing the [Las] Vegas experi-
