{"id":229780,"date":"2022-11-02T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=229780"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:10:09","slug":"iba-president-umar-kremlevs-good-deed-gives-ayeni-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/iba-president-umar-kremlevs-good-deed-gives-ayeni-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"IBA president Umar Kremlev\u2019s good deed gives Ayeni new life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-229781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Umar2-128x86.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Joseph Ayeni is a remarkable man. This is his story. He has given more than 30 years of his life to the development of boxing both in Africa and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many years he was a member of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Board of Directors, but he recently left his post and retired because of his advanced age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometime after his retirement, Dr. Ayeni was hospitalized with a horrifying diagnosis of a stroke. The clinics where Ayeni was treated failed to cope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story could have ended tragically \u2013 but thanks to the international boxing family there is a wonderful ending. Truly the boxing community is truly huge and friendly! Thanks to people across the globe who kept in touch with Dr. Ayeni, news of the tough situation reached the President of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He promised to cure him, and he did so without any delay. Mr. Kremlev simply asked a clinic to help, assisted Ayeni to undergo treatment, and then sent him to rehabilitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now Dr. Ayeni is completely healthy, full of life and is at home with his family. We were asked to publish this story at Dr. Ayeni\u2019s request. He believes that all good deeds shouldn\u2019t stay in the shade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI really believe that the IBA is a family. Every person is precious, even after retirement. I am grateful to fate that all has happened this way. Umar takes his place worthily, and he really is a man of his word. Thank you, my good friend, for giving me more days of my life! Thanks to the entire IBA boxing family for taking care of older generations,\u201d Dr. Ayeni said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Story of Dr Joseph Ayeni\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1rnEJd05gk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":229781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IBA president Umar Kremlev\u2019s good deed gives Ayeni new life - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/iba-president-umar-kremlevs-good-deed-gives-ayeni-new-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IBA president Umar Kremlev\u2019s good deed gives Ayeni new life - 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