Turning Azinga ‘Golden Boy’ Fuzile into a world champion is still a mission Rumble Africa Promotions (RAP) wants to fulfil despite the boxer’s failure to beat Japanese opponent Kenichi Ogawa last weekend.
Ogawa defeated Fuzile on points during a vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior-lightweight title fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States, on Sunday morning (South African time). Fuzile returned from the US to East London on Wednesday.
Now RAP chairman Teris Ntutu has insisted that they are going to make sure that their mission is fulfilled as they want to see their marquee boxer Fuzile scaling dizzy heights in the fistic sport.
“We are not going to rest until Azinga becomes a world champion. We are not going to give up, not now,” Ntutu told Sport On show on SAfm on Wednesday evening.
The RAP boss also added that they are going to have a postmortem of the Ogawa fight with the hope of seeing what went wrong before mapping a way forward.
“We are going to make sure we sit down, we analyse the fight properly and the preparations. Many people are talking about many different things, the period between when the fight was announced and the actual date of the fight,” Ntutu said on SAfm.
Initially, Ogawa was scheduled to face Tajikistan boxer Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov for the same title in Dubai in August. The fight was postponed after Rakhimov picked up an injury.
Seeing that Rakhimov was taking longer to recover from injury, the IBF ordered the fight between Fuzile and Ogawa.
Meanwhile, Ntutu moved far away from discussing differences between Fuzile’s trainer Mzamo ‘Chief’ Njekanye and the boxer’s manager Colin ‘Nomakanjani’ Nathan.
“We choose not to entertain the blame game. We are going to make sure that if there are things that contributed to the loss, those things are going to be quietly sorted,” he said.
