*Ghana’s national super middleweight champion Daniel Adotey Allotey is
fancying the opportunity to gain worldwide recognition and also an
announcement of his credentials to the boxing world when he faces incumbent
Commonwealth champ George Groves in a non-title 12 round super middleweight*
*eliminator at the **Olympia in Liverpool in the United Kingdom next weekend
February 12.*

“Every boxer wants to be a world champ but everything you have to move from
one before two so I have to win the Commonwealth title before I dream about
this IBF, WBC or WBA titles. Its my desire to make it so I hope to use this
fight as the springboard to announce myself to the world. So I am knocking
on the doors of the big men who make big fights happen that I am here,”
Daniel Adotey Allotey has told *SportsInGhana.com* in Accra.

The notice for the his first ever fight outside the country may have come at
a short time but 26 year old Daniel Allotey is undeterred, rating the
opportunity as one he desperately craved. That is why he is counting on a
previous 8-month training stint in South Africa as an experience which will
guide him through whatever limitations that may befall him in Liverpool come
fight night.

Allotey also knows too well that the unbeaten Groves (11-0, 9 KOs), won the
Commonwealth with a knockout win over his more experienced compatriot
Charles Adamu nearly a year ago, a title he successfully defended with
a 6thround TKO of Kenny Anderson only last November after having also
fought and
won against Alfredo Contreras in Las Vegas, USA earlier on July 31, 2010.

But the Ghanaian is adamant over any of Groves’ scary credentials. He
retains an unwavering calmness. “I am going to fight with my own different
game plan so no problem because the ring will decide. Surely I will win this
fight and Ghanaians should keep the hope alive and I will never let them
down. I know this year is a year of multiple blessing so I know something
good will happen this year. So those who are praying for me and those also
helping in various ways, I promise to win for them,” Allotey has pledged.

Rahim Asamoah, trainer of the boxer, affirms the stance with the assurance
that all is well and that they will return to Ghana victorious after the
fight on February 12.

“We are hopeful that he (Allotey) will get a good result against Groves
because we have watched his fight videos and we are ready to beat him. We
want to avenge the defeat suffered by our compatriot Charles Adamu, and we
shall do it,” Coach Asamoah stated.

*Credit: Prince Dornu-Leiku
Posted 02/02/2011*