Burna Boy has gifted Transportable N20 million for defeating Pace Darlington in a celeb boxing match on Friday night time in Lagos.
Transportable was declared the winner after Darlington failed to face up within the second spherical.
The ‘Zazoo Zeh’ thanked Burna Boy for the bizarre reward on Sunday on his Instagram story.
“20 million from @burnaboygram. If you wish to be like Odogwu, are you able to do like Odogwu? God bless your loved ones,” he wrote. Burna Boy is within the behavior of being beneficiant to his enemy’s enemy.
Recall that Darlington and Burna Boy have been locked in a feud which dates again to October 2024. It started in October 2024 after Darlington mocked Burna Boy’s connection to Diddy, who confronted FBI points. This led to public spats and social media jabs earlier than Burna Boy arrested Pace Darlington.
Darlington was launched in January after two months in jail. Additionally in January, Burna Boy had a messy viral feud with Cubana Chief Priest. To spite the latter, Burna Boy gifted Cubana Chief Priest’s alleged brother $30,000 in a viral video. In one other show of generosity, he promised to help Cubana Chief Priest’s alleged Kenyan child mama, Hellen.
Chaos within the Ring
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the bout, tagged ‘Chaos within the Ring’, stemmed from a web based feud between the singers.
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On Sunday, Darlington referred to as Transportable out for a rematch after he misplaced of their extremely anticipated superstar match.
The match, which happened at Balmoral in Lagos, was extremely anticipated and drew a big crowd of followers and spectators. The struggle ended after Transportable knocked Speedy out within the second spherical.
The struggle started with an intense first spherical, which was so fiercely in Transportable’s favour that it left Darlington staggering, struggling to discover a footing. Then he collapsed flat on the bottom, inflicting the referee to declare Transportable the winner.
Taking it to Instagram, Darlington determined to deal with the matter by describing the match as unfair and describing his rivals’ street-hooned struggle potential as an unfair benefit. “It’s so unfair”, he mentioned.
He described his childhood and the way sure issues current in his colleagues’ childhood and absent in his had turn out to be a useful benefit for him: “I’ve by no means been in a hoop earlier than as a result of I didn’t come from poverty. I by no means wanted to learn to struggle. We didn’t want to grab meals from folks, so I didn’t must learn to struggle. That’s why it appears to be like like I don’t know the way to struggle.”
“However now, I’m a person, and I really feel it’s necessary for a person to know the way to throw a fist. So now, I’m stepping into, and I would like a rematch. You don’t deserve that cash”, he added.
He additionally shared the variety of coaching periods he would wish and speculated on a date for the proposed rematch. “Give me two months and 15 coaching periods, and I’ll be prepared. That prize cash must be mine.”
As jocular and entertaining as this will likely appear to all, Akpi shouldn’t be taking it calmly. He has promised to coach for the following match and add ‘juju’ as his edge within the rematch.
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