Heita gets WBA Africa title crack
Boxing
Namibian featherweight boxer Mateus Heita has vowed to claim the WBA Pan Africa title when he next steps in the ring against South Africa’s Thato Bonakoane. The two are challenging each other for the vacant title on 17 August at the Windhoek Country Club.
The event will be presented by MTC Nestor Sunshine Tobias Boxing Promotions.
“I would like to thank the sponsors that are making this possible and giving me another chance.
“I will call this fight a second chance, because I have a chance to fight again for an international title.
“It is a second chance for me, because in my last fight I failed to make the weight. So now I have moved up in weight class and kept on working very hard to get this opportunity,” Heita said.
The former WBO Africa super bantamweight title holder enters the fight with a clean record of 11 wins in 11 professional fights.
Heita is known for his versatility in boxing skills, as well as good endurance.
His opponent has a record of 23 bouts with 14 wins, six losses and three draws in his professional boxing career.
The 33-year-old South African’s most recent fight was a first-round technical knockout defeat at the hands of Namibia’s Fillipus Nghitumbwa during December last year.
Promoter Nestor Sunshine Tobias invites fans to mark the date and witness the big fight first-hand.
“This is another good opportunity for Heita and we as the academy are there to make such fights possible.
“For years we have been producing champions without TV rights and this has not been easy.
“We want to thank our main sponsor MTC and co-sponsor PstBet for having invested in boxing,” Tobias said.
Thirty-four-year-old lightweight Jeremiah Nakathila, a former WBO interim world title contender who has had three big appearances on undercards in Las Vegas, and teen-aged amateur light heavyweight prospect Pieter Kotze will also represent the stable on the day.