After spending the festive season preparing for his fight against Australian Justis Huni, South African heavyweight champion Shaun Potgieter is due to leave for Australia on Thursday.
Potgieter faces Huni in an International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan-Pacific and World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Global heavyweight title contest at the Gold Coast Centre in Broadbeach, Australia, on Wednesday next week.
This is going to be the 25-year-old Huni’s second fight in less than a month. Huni from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, stopped Leandro Daniel Robutti in Fortitude Valley on Sunday, 8 December last year.
“Look, this is just another fight where we are the underdog. People know I’m an aggressive front-foot trainer. I don’t expect any favours in Australia, but I can tell you right now, we are going to rawl him until he falls over,” Potgieter’s trainer Gert Strydom said.
Meanwhile, Potgieter will become the second South African boxer to face off against Huni in less than a year.
The Australian defeated Kevin Lerena, the reignig World Boxing Council (WBC) bridgerweight champion, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last March.