After capturing the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Africa female junior-featherweight title last year, Simamkele Tutsheni will now go a step further in her career.
Having signed a two-year contract with Golden Gloves last October, Tutsheni, a firefighter from Cape Town, will challenge current IBO female junior-featherweight titlist and Polish boxer Laura Monika Grzyb in Poland on Saturday, 14 March.
The Langa-based Tutsheni won the IBO Africa female junior-featherweight title after she outpointed Caleigh Swart at the Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, in August last year.
Confirming the wold title contest, Tutsheni’s trainer Felix Venganayi said: “Sima is fighting against Lara Grzyb from Poland.”
This fight is going to pit two unbeaten boxers against each other. Tutsheni has won all her eight fights with three of those wins coming from knockouts.
On the other hand, the 30-year-old Grzyb from Jastrzebie Zdroj in Poland has stopped three of her 11 victims. Grzyb will be defending her crown for the first time since she defeated Spaniard Sarai Umpierrez at the Nosalowy Dwór Resort and Spa in Zakopane, Poland, in October 2024. – Monwabisi Jimlongo
