WORLD Boxing Federation middleweight champion Charles Manyuchi is set to defend his title against Ugandan Muhamad Sebyala in a WBF/WABA supreme middleweight unification title in June.
The winner take-all bout is scheduled for the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on June 28.
It was initially slated for April 2020 but due to the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, the match had to be shelved to a later date.
The fight against the Ugandan would be Manyuchi’s first bout after a year on the sidelines.
He will be returning to action for the first time since beating Argentine boxer Diego Diaz Gallardo via a third-round technical knockout at HICC in September 2019 to land the World Boxing Federation (WBF) world middleweight title.
Manyuchi’s trainer Ali Phiri confirmed the development and said the boxer will start camp next month.
“We are happy about the new date. It has been long overdue. As you are aware the fight was supposed to have been held in April last year but due to Covid-19, we had to wait. We hope everything will be fine so that we can be able to fulfil this chapter and move on to the next,” Ali told EntersportNews.
“We have been training just to stay in shape but soon we will intensify our preparations as we have a big fight ahead.
“The Covid-19 break did not break us, rather it made us stronger. We are not going to disappoint.”
Manyuchi sits on 24 wins, four defeats with only a single knockout and one draw from 29 bouts whilst his opponent Sebyala has 19 wins, 13 defeats and one draw from a total of 33 bouts.
The Zimbabwean boxer is targeting to reclaim the World Boxing Council (WBC) silver welterweight belt, which he lost two years ago.
