Mose Auimatagi Jnr to fight Belguim’s Ilias Achergui
Mose Auimatagi Jnr’s opponent for Saturday, Feb 29, has now been announced. Auimatagi will fight Belguim’s Ilias Achergui in an eight-round super middleweight contest.
Achergui has a record of 14-5-1 and is the No. 3 ranked super middleweight in Belguim.
The pair will fight on the undercard of the Jayde Mitchell- Istvan Szili WBO Oriental Super Middleweight title bout, set to take place in St Kilda’s Town Hall in Victoria, Australia.
The event is part of Dean Lonergan’s National Boxing Series. This fight will be Auimatagi’s second Australian outing after the 24-year-old stopped Sydney’s Kerry Foley last June to claim the vacant OPBF Silver and WBA East-West Oceania Super Middleweight straps.
Auimatagi is currently ranked No. 87 in the Boxrec super middleweight rankings and is one of New Zealand boxing’s most promising talents. NZ boxing fans will be hoping that 2020 will be a busy year for ” Iron Mose.”