Waidi 'Skoro' Usman: GOtv Boxing Night star to fight Fuzile for IBF Africa title in South Africa

Skoro made his name as the continental winner of the Gotv Boxing Night 14 in December 2017.

GOtv Boxing Night star and African Boxing Union  featherweight title champion, Waidi 'Skoro' Usman of Nigeria, will on Sunday, July 29 face South Africa’s Azinga Fuzile for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Africa super featherweight title.

The fight will hold on Sunday in East London at the Orient Centre in South Africa.

Skoro made his name as the continental winner of the Gotv Boxing Night 14 in December 2017.

The boxer had has previously won the national and West African featherweight titles at different editions of GOtv Boxing Night.

While Skoro will be battling in South on Sunday, the Gotv Boxing Night 15 will be happening at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium on the same day.

GOtv Boxing Night 15 will feature seven fights, including the African Boxing Union (ABU), lightweight title bout between incumbent champion, Oto “Joe Boy” Joseph of Nigeria and Ghana’s Nathaniel Nukpe.

The fight line-up also includes an international light middleweight challenge between Akeem “Dodo” Sadiku of Nigeria and Franc Houanvoegbe of Benin Republic, a national challenge bout between ABU welterweight champion, Olaide “Fijaborn” Fijabi and Kazeem “Iberu” Ariyo; as well as a national cruiserweight clash between Michael “Lion Heart” Godwin and Idowu “ID Cabasa” Okusote.

Prince “Lion” Nwoye will square up against Ridwan “Scorpion” Oyekola in a national lightweight duel; Vincent “Dada” Essien and Segun “Showboy” Olalehin will trade punches a national light welterweight contest; while Daniel “Big Shark” Emeka and Sulaimon “Olags” Adeosun will slug it out in a national light heavyweight clash.