Boxing trainer Mzamo ‘Chief’ Njekanye is set to fly out of South Africa for the United States on Tuesday to team up with his boxer Xolisani ‘Nomeva’ Ndongeni in Las Vegas.
Ndongeni, a former International Boxing Organisation (IBO) lightweight champion, is going to fight against American boxer Arnold Barboza Junior at the Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas on Saturday, 6 January 2024 (Sunday, 7 January, South African time).
Ndongeni will be attempting to wrestle the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Intercontinental junior-welterweight title away from the unbeaten Barboza Jr.
“I’m going to leave for America on Tuesday to team up with Nomeva,” Duncan Village-based Njekanye confirmed.
Ndongeni, who once held the SA junior-lightweight and lightweight titles, will go to next weekend’s fight following a points loss to Ernesto de Jesus Mercado in July last year.
And Ndongeni with a professional record of 31 victories (18 knockouts) and three losses remains the only boxer to have gone the distance with Mercado, who has 12 knockouts in 13 wins.
Meanwhile, the 32-year-old Barboza Jr from California in the United States has won all his 28 fights with 10 of those victories coming via the short distance.
