For several years that Kenya participated at the King’s Cup Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, the late retired President Daniel Arap Moi helped pay boxers' allowances to international competition.
Former chairman of Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) of Kenya Marsden Madoka said Moi’s generosity was a big boost to Hit Squad to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games where the late Robert Wangila, who went up against Frenchman Laurent Boudani in the welterweight finals, won Kenya's maiden gold.