There will be no rest for award-winning boxing trainer Colin ‘Nomakanjani’ Nathan, who guided Hekkie Budler to victory over Mexican boxer Elwin Soto on Sunday morning (South African time).
Budler outpointed Soto in a World Boxing Council (WBC) junior-flyweight elimination bout in Mexico to earn the right to challenge champion Kenshiro Teraji from Japan.
Nathan will land in South Africa from Mexico on Tuesday evening and will then go to a weigh-in with his boxer Cayden Truter on Wednesday. Truter is scheduled to fight against Khanyisani Mbokazi at The Galleria in Johannesburg on Thursday.
“I’m getting back tonight (Tuesday). Tomorrow (Wednesday) morning I’m off to a weigh-in I’ve got Cayden fighting on Thursday night,” Nathan said.
After Thursday’s fight Nathan will fly to East London where Lerato Dlamini is going to face Filipino boxer Richard Pumicpic in a vacant IBF International featherweight title fight at a Rumble Africa Promotions (RAP) tournament at the Orient Theatre on Sunday.
“Then I will fly down for the Rumble show for Lerato Dlamini’s IBF International bout. Then i’m busy in July with Ayanda Nkosi,” he said.
Nathan will then return to Mexico for a bigger mission in August as he will lead Sivenathi ‘Special One’ Nontshinga to war.
The 23-year-old Nontshinga is due to face Mexican Hector ‘Baby Bull’ Flores in a vacant IBF junior-flyweight title fight in Tijuana, Baja California, on Friday, 19 August (Saturday, 20 August, South African time).
The title became vacant after former champion Felix Alvarado from Nicaragua moved up a division to flyweight earlier this year.
This fight is going to pit two unbeaten boxers against each other with Nontshinga having won all his 10 fights, nine of them inside the distance, while the 29-year-old Flores has registered 20 wins (10 knockouts) and four draws.
“Then in August it will be Hedda Wolmarans defending her IBF Africa title. Then it’s Sivenathi Nontshinga. I’m very, very busy,” Nathan concluded.
