Oscar "Golden Boy" Chauke's reign as IBF International featherweight champion will come under threat when he faces his conqueror Tshifhiwa ''The Atomic Spider" Munyai in Preston, England, on September 12.
Chauke is well aware of the menace posed by Munyai as the UK-based South African easily outpointed him over 12 rounds in a fight for the WBA Pan African junior featherweight title in East London five years ago.
IBF-Africa and Middle East president Onesmo Ngowi told Sowetan yesterday the grudge fight between the two was arranged after a mandate from IBF championship president Lindsey Tucker.
Chauke and Munyai do not have promoters and Tucker solved the problem by asking English promoter Michael Marsden of Harrison Promotions to organise the fight.
''He [Tucker] wrote that the IBF has granted formal sanction approval for the IBF International featherweight championship optional defence fight between champion Oscar Chauke and Tshifhiwa Munyai," said the Tanzania-based Ngowi.
Chauke won the belt last year after destroying Namibian Gottlieb Ndokosho in Namibia and Ngowi was fight supervisor on the night.
The former SA junior bantamweight and junior featherweight champion, who is trained by Manny Fernandes, is fresh from a lopsided points win against Prince Ndlovu in the second defence of his SA featherweight title in Giyani last month.
While 34-year-old Chauke has 34 wins against nine losses and three draws, the 30-year-old Munyai has 24 victories from 31 bouts.
Munyai, an enormously talented and dexterous pugilist from Makwarela in Limpopo, is a former Commonwealth and WBA Inter-Continental bantamweight and IBO and WBA Pan African junior featherweight title-holder.
The lanky boxer has lived in the UK since 2013 and trains in the gym of Johnney Roye, who also hones the skills of two other self-exiled South Africans - Michael Ramabeletsa, from Soweto, and Malcolm Klassen, from the West Rand.
The grudge fight between Chauke and Munyai will take place at the same English venue where Munyai stopped Reynaldo Cajina in the ninth round on June 13.
Chauke out to silence his conqueror Munyai
Oscar "Golden Boy" Chauke's reign as IBF International featherweight champion will come under threat when he faces his conqueror Tshifhiwa ''The Atomic Spider" Munyai in Preston, England, on September 12.
Chauke is well aware of the menace posed by Munyai as the UK-based South African easily outpointed him over 12 rounds in a fight for the WBA Pan African junior featherweight title in East London five years ago.
IBF-Africa and Middle East president Onesmo Ngowi told Sowetan yesterday the grudge fight between the two was arranged after a mandate from IBF championship president Lindsey Tucker.
Chauke and Munyai do not have promoters and Tucker solved the problem by asking English promoter Michael Marsden of Harrison Promotions to organise the fight.
''He [Tucker] wrote that the IBF has granted formal sanction approval for the IBF International featherweight championship optional defence fight between champion Oscar Chauke and Tshifhiwa Munyai," said the Tanzania-based Ngowi.
Chauke won the belt last year after destroying Namibian Gottlieb Ndokosho in Namibia and Ngowi was fight supervisor on the night.
The former SA junior bantamweight and junior featherweight champion, who is trained by Manny Fernandes, is fresh from a lopsided points win against Prince Ndlovu in the second defence of his SA featherweight title in Giyani last month.
While 34-year-old Chauke has 34 wins against nine losses and three draws, the 30-year-old Munyai has 24 victories from 31 bouts.
Munyai, an enormously talented and dexterous pugilist from Makwarela in Limpopo, is a former Commonwealth and WBA Inter-Continental bantamweight and IBO and WBA Pan African junior featherweight title-holder.
The lanky boxer has lived in the UK since 2013 and trains in the gym of Johnney Roye, who also hones the skills of two other self-exiled South Africans - Michael Ramabeletsa, from Soweto, and Malcolm Klassen, from the West Rand.
The grudge fight between Chauke and Munyai will take place at the same English venue where Munyai stopped Reynaldo Cajina in the ninth round on June 13.
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