Seven months after capturing the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) All-Africa female junior-featherweight title, Simamkele Tutsheni is now counting days before she flies out of South Africa for Poland.
Only eight fights in the professional ranks, Tutsheni travels to the European country as she hopes to return home with the IBO female junior-featherweight title when she meets Polish boxer Monika Laura Grzyb at Miasto Jastrzębie-Zdrój on Sunday, 15 March.
“We are leaving on Wednesday morning next week,” the All-Africa champion’s trainer Felix Venganai revealed on Friday.
Tutsheni is yet to lose or draw as she has won all her eight fights with three of those wins coming from knockouts. Her victories include her IBO All-Africa title win over Caleigh Swart at the Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, last August.
Meanwhile, following her transition from mixed martial arts to boxing, Grzyb, who is originally from Jastrzębie-Zdrój, won more than 150 amateur fights.
The 30-year-old Grzyb, a winner of the 2023 Best Polish Professional Female Boxer, has won all her 11 professional bouts with three of those victories coming from the short route. – Monwabisi Jimlongo
