{"id":669,"date":"2019-09-17T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/gambia\/?p=669"},"modified":"2019-09-17T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:22:26","slug":"hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler","title":{"rendered":"Hoyantan To Baye Mandione: \u2018I\u2019m The Better Wrestler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gambia\u2019s reigning arena king Hoyantan has lay into Senegalese wrestler Baye Mandione ahead of the duo\u2019s fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A deal between them is brokered by Senegalese promoter \u2018Jamaican\u2019 in what\u2019s sure expected to be a Senegambian important duel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though details of the contract is sketchy, Gambia\u2019s juggernaut Hoyantan Foroyaa Sport understands, has been offered close to D200,000 plus add-ons while Baye Mandione is reported to have little more than that, according to an unimpeachable source.<\/p>\n<p>The combat was billed for June\u2019s end this year but couldn\u2019t hold owing to a setback facing the promoter \u2018Jamaican,\u2019 a close bosom of Senegalese king of area Modou Lo.<br \/>\nAnd ahead of their much anticipated clash, Hoyantan took an aim at his adversary in a recent face to face, claiming he is the better fighter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am a better wrestler than he is. It\u2019s up to him. Anyhow he wants it, we will do it that way,\u2019 he told a cheering crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The wrestlers were holding out for an additional D50, 000 to agree to stage the bout in November \u2013 a request Jamaican baulked at paying instead preferring to pay D20,000 each to compensate for extension of the fight date.<\/p>\n<p>Hoyantan is unbeaten since his entry into the Gambian arena in 2012 packing aside the likes of Tass-sa-yaram, Yaya Jammeh, Action, Gambien and recently Leket Bu Barra based on warnings.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Club Ndongo Ceesay heavyweight\u2019s first battle up against a prominent Baye Mandione who once fought the calibre of Modou Lo, Boy Niang II, Papa Sow, Baboye, Less II and Gris Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>Baye Mandione is coming on the back of a surprise defeat to Modou Anta and wishes to rediscover his winning form beginning with a clash with Hoyantan who is not much known to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambia\u2019s reigning arena king Hoyantan has lay into Senegalese wrestler Baye Mandione ahead of the duo\u2019s fight. 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Though details of the contract is sketchy, Gambia\u2019s juggernaut Hoyantan Foroyaa Sport understands, has been offered close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,17],"tags":[502,503,501],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-baye-mandione","tag-gambias-reigning-arena-king-hoyantan","tag-senegalese-wrestler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hoyantan To Baye Mandione: \u2018I\u2019m The Better Wrestler - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gambia\u2019s reigning arena king Hoyantan has lay into Senegalese wrestler Baye Mandione ahead of the duo\u2019s fight.A deal between them is brokered by Senegalese promoter \u2018Jamaican\u2019 in what\u2019s sure expected to be a Senegambian important duel.\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hoyantan To Baye Mandione: \u2018I\u2019m The Better Wrestler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gambia\u2019s reigning arena king Hoyantan has lay into Senegalese wrestler Baye Mandione ahead of the duo\u2019s fight.A deal between them is brokered by Senegalese promoter \u2018Jamaican\u2019 in what\u2019s sure expected to be a Senegambian important duel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-17T15:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/09\/Hoyantane-is-confident-ahead-of-the-fight-696x522.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"adama\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"adama\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"adama\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/a7488a69bb91ed4cb95c78165665a7c2\"},\"headline\":\"Hoyantan To Baye Mandione: \u2018I\u2019m The Better Wrestler\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-17T15:22:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/2019\/09\/Hoyantane-is-confident-ahead-of-the-fight-696x522.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Baye Mandione\",\"Gambia\u2019s reigning arena king Hoyantan\",\"Senegalese wrestler\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/hoyantan-to-baye-mandione-im-the-better-wrestler\",\"name\":\"Hoyantan To Baye Mandione: \u2018I\u2019m The Better Wrestler - 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