Nationwide Trials to go Forward as Deliberate, confirms UBF Interim Committee chairman Rukundo

Denis Musanje

The Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF) Interim Committee led by Olympian Sam Rukundo has confirmed that the Nationwide Trials scheduled for this month will go forward as earlier communicated.

Whereas addressing the media at Grand Plaza Lodge in Kampala, Rukundo revealed that they’re but to obtain any communication from the Nationwide Council of Sports activities (NCS) stopping them from finishing up any boxing exercise.

“We’re nonetheless in command of newbie boxing and we’re but to obtain any communication from the Nationwide Council of Sports activities concerning suspension of our occasion. The occasion will go on as earlier communicated and a number of other boxers are prepared to participate within the trials as a consequence of start this Friday,” stated Rukundo.

On Tuesday, a doc from NCS dated fifteenth September said that the nationwide sports activities governing physique was involved with the way during which some unscrupulous individuals had been organizing boxing occasions with out clearance from the respective Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF).

“We’ve got written a number of letters to the Nationwide Council of Sports activities and we all know them for calling press conferences in case of any matter concerning sports activities. What we’re doing is not only for our personal profit however for the great of boxing,” Rukundo added.

Rukundo additionally asserted that over 100 boxers had already registered for the trials scheduled for September nineteenth to twenty first.

After the trials, the ultimate chosen staff will symbolize the nation on the IBA Africa Elite Males’s and Ladies’s Boxing Championship, slated for October nineteenth to November 1st, 2026, within the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kinshasa is about to turn into the motion centre of continental boxing as soon as once more, enjoying host to the celebrated championship on the Stade des Martyrs Gymnasium.

Zambia, Cape Verde, Kenya, South Africa and Morocco are among the many nations which have confirmed participation within the prestigious event.