28 Jan 2010

Big test for Tua

6:23 am on 28 January 2010

David Tua's trainer Roger Bloodworth says the heavyweight boxer's next opponent is a big step up from his comeback bout with Shane Cameron in Hamilton last October.

Tua's bout with the United States-based Nigerian Friday Ahunanya will be at the Waitakere Trusts Stadium Arena in Auckland on March 31st.

Bloodworth arrived on Sunday to start preparations for the bout with Ahunanya, who's never been knocked out and was responsible for Cameron's first career defeat in 2007.

Both the WBO Asia Pacific and Oriental heavyweight belts are at stake, after Tua took them off Cameron.

Promoters Duco Events spokesman David Higgins says Tua's comeback bout with Cameron in Hamilton was big and Tua fighting in his home town will be an even bigger attraction.