Jussie Smollett’s Alleged Attacker Wins Chicago Golden Gloves
15 April 2019 |
6:30 am
One of the two brothers who allegedly helped embattled Empire actor Jussie Smollett stage an assault has recently won Chicago’s foremost amateur boxing competition. Abimbola Abel Osundairo who supposedly took money from the actor along with his brother for a fake assault that was made to look like a hate crime won his Chicago Golden…
One of the two brothers who allegedly helped embattled Empire actor Jussie Smollett stage an assault has recently won Chicago’s foremost amateur boxing competition.
Abimbola Abel Osundairo who supposedly took money from the actor along with his brother for a fake assault that was made to look like a hate crime won his Chicago Golden Gloves championship fight in the first round by way of technical knockout.
Abel Osundairo is now a Chicago Golden Gloves champion, according to reports. Osundairo and his brother say they helped Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago. https://t.co/I7R2uciQnp
— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) April 15, 2019
According to the Chicago Tribune, Osundairo was competing in the senior novice division, which contains inexperienced fighters under 178 lbs.
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