Sharadene Fortuin’s ring return has fallen flat after her fight, which was scheduled to take place in Zimbabwe next month has collapsed.
The organisers of Fortuin’s fight had promised to get her a suitable replacement following the injury picked up by her original opponent Kudakwashe Chiwandare during a football match in Zimbabwe earlier this month.
Fortuin, the reigning South African female bantamweight champion, was due to square up against Chiwandare in an African Boxing Union (ABU) SADC bantamweight title fight at the Country Club Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday, 23 August.
Chiwandire, a former interim World Boxing Council (WBC) female junior-featherweight titlist, sustained a tibia fracture during a match between her team Scottland and Harare City Cubs in a Women’s Northern Region Soccer League match.
“There’s no fight. The people there had promised to get a replacement. They have failed to do so simple because the fight was always about the injured boxer,” Fortuin’s trainer Lonwabo Witbooi said.
Fortuin from Seymour in the Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, Eastern Cape, is yet to fight since her victory over another Zimbabwean boxer Patience Mastara in Polokwane in September 2023.
