Former Africa super bantamweight champion Sande “Swico” Kizito will be making a second attempt at becoming a world champion when he goes head on for the vacant IBF Continental Africa featherweight title against Tanzania’s Ramadhani Shauri at the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania on August 25.
It will be the first major fight for the diminutive puglist in 2012 having had a failed attempt last year for the vacant ABU super bantamweight title in Burkina Faso where he lost to Burkinabe Alexis Kabore in Ouagadougou.
Kizito goes into the fight with a record of (12-9,7 KOs) and has seven wins out of his last eight fights. “I am looking forward to the fight and I have been scaling down in the gym ahead of the big fight,” Kizito said. “I want to claim this belt and want tio beat Shauri infront of his home fans.”
It will be second major title attempt in his career since turning professional in 2000. In 2008 he had a shot against Thai boxer Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat in a PABA bantamweight fight which he lost by a 11 round point decision.
Shauri is a tough opponent with 12 wins and 2 loses and six within the distance.