Winning the SA boxing championship belt on Sunday afternoon will fulfil the commitment made by Abdzul-Aziz Kunert in 2014, when he walked out of Drakenstein correctional centre, formerly Victor Verster prison, where the former gang member had spent three years of his 12-year jail term for murder.

Kunert had already tested his strength and capabilities as a fighter by winning an amateur boxing tournament inside the prison walls. It was organised by veteran trainer Emil Brice...