Former Nigerian boxer and coach, Jeremiah Okorodudu has passed on, age of 64.
Okorodudu, a bronze medalist at men’s middleweight boxing event of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, dead on the evening of Wednesday at the intensive care of Brighton Hospital, Lawanson.
‘Loud Mouth’ as he was fondly called by his admirers during his active boxing years has been down with partial stroke and diabetes for more than two years and his situation became worst early in the year.
Okorodudu, who also fought for Nigeria in the middleweight boxing event at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, United States, and was for some time staff of the Sports Ministry is survived by his wife Mrs Adenike Okorodudu and five children.
Meanwhile, at the time of writing this story, ThisNigeria gathered that the management of the Brighton Hospital has refused to the family from taking possession of the corpse due to unpaid bills.
“Jeremiah is gone and the hospital said we can’t take his body away because we have not paid the balance of the hospital bills,” said a friend, who refused to be named.
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President, Nigeria Boxing Board of Control (NBBof C), Dr. Rafiu Ladipo in his reaction described the news of Okorodudu’s demise as sad and painful, saying that he only learnt about the late boxer’s illness recently and was planning to pay a visit to him but shifted it because of the Ileya festival.
“I heard he was down last week and now he is dead. Really sad. I heard when I was going to Ibadan last week and I told the person who informed us that I will be going to see him this week but the Ileya festival change my movements and now that he’s dead, is sad,” he said.
