Local middle-weight boxing pugilist Fhulufhelo Ramulifho is optimistic that he will win the Western Cape Provincial Championship when he faces Dillion Solomon at the Sunningdale Sports Complex in Cape Town next Friday (24 March).
After a tough training session at the Sports and Art Centre on Monday morning, 13 March, the soft-spoken boxer from Thohoyandou said he was very confident that he would beat his opponent hands down. "I have been training very hard for the past six weeks for this fight. It is the most important fight in my boxing career. The winner of this fight will be able to challenge for the South African Championship title, so I will do all I can to win the fight," he said.
His training manager, John "Smoking Joe" Nemakonde, concurred with the talented boxer and said they were ready for the fight. "We can even fight Solomon anytime, anywhere. Our stable has only one national champion in Raider Muleba. It is time to produce more boxing champions from the Vhembe Municipality, and Ramulifho has all the potential to become a champion," he said.
When asked how a boxer from Limpopo managed to get to fight for the Western Cape Provincial Championship belt, he explained that boxing worked differently from other sporting codes. "In boxing, if there is a shortage of boxers in a certain division in one province, we take a boxer from another province to fight for the championship. Dillion Solomon is the only super middle-weight boxer in the Western Cape, while Ramulifho is the only super middle-weight boxer in the Limpopo Province, so they have to fight to improve their ratings," he said.