ZOLANI "Last Born" Tete will make a voluntary defence of his IBF junior bantamweight title against Paul Butler in Liverpool in England on October 25, the champion's promoter Branco Milenkovic confirmed yesterday.

The fight - Tete's first defence of the belt he won in Japan against Teiru Kinoshita on July 18 - will be organised by British promoter Frank Warren in association with Milenkovic's Branco Sports Production.

The fight against Butler, the former IBF bantam- weight champion, will be Tete's third in 10 months.

The boxer from Mdantsane, near East London, earned the right to challenge for the belt he holds by stopping previously undefeated Mexican and former IBF world champion Juan Sanchez in the 10th round in Mexico last November.

The left-hander, who is trained by Mhikiza Myekeni, then travelled to Japan where he outclassed Kinoshita in front of his partisan fans two months ago.

Butler won the IBF bantamweight title against Stuart Hall on a controversial points decision on June 7.

But he vacated the title without a single defence and went back to the junior bantamweight class.

His intention is to become Britain's first boxer to win a second belt at a lighter weight in over a century.

The last person to do it was heavyweight Bob Fitzsimmons in 1903.

Milenkovic said Tete could not afford to take Butler lightly because of his fight record after 16 fights.

"But the quality opponent Butler has fought could not come near the quality boxer Tete is," said Milenkovic, whose champion boasts 16 KOs from 19 wins against three losses.

The IBF junior bantamweight division is very strong with most boxers coming from Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Panama.

Milenkovic has produced 10 IBF champions in six years. They included South Africa's first female world champion Noni "She Bee Stingin" Tenge, who won the welterweight strap in Brakpan in 2011.