Ground Breaking Boxers

Sugar Gibiliru Jr

The son of a former and famous Ghanaian boxing champion, Sugar Gibiliru Snr, who moved to Liverpool in 1961 from Ghana and married a local woman. Sugar Gibiliru Jnr, acquired his dad’s talent for boxing and went onto commit himself to a career in the professional ranks. Despite early setbacks he demonstrated true grit in winning the Central Area lightweight title against Tony Foster at the 400 Club in Manchester in January 1990. He then moved down a weight, to Super Featherweight to secure a victory over Peter Gabbitus to win the Central Area title. These victories were succeeded by an even bigger achievement winning the British Super Featherweight title against Robert Dickie, stopping him in the ninth round, at the Town Hall Stockport, in April 1991. He fought for the Commonwealth Super Featherweight title on two unsuccessful occasions in the early 1990’s.