Cindy Ngamba, the boxing star to return out of the Olympic Video games final summer time, is making her skilled debut on Friday March 7, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Ngamba made historical past at Paris 2024 when grew to become the primary member of the refugee crew ever to safe an Olympic medal.
She gained middleweight bronze at Roland Garros, opening her match with a victory over the reigning World champion and placing collectively a sequence of spectacular performances.
Ngamba will go in at a very good degree for a primary professional bout, boxing Kirstie Bavington, the previous European welterweight champion who went 10 rounds with Lauren Worth within the inaugural girls’s British title combat.
They are going to field on the undercard of the Natasha Jonas vs Lauren Worth world title unification on the Royal Albert Corridor on March 7.
Ambitions are excessive that Ngamba will develop right into a world class skilled, who might finally combat her technique to a showdown with Claressa Shields.
America’s Shields is likely one of the main figures in girls’s boxing, an undisputed champion at middleweight who leapt by means of divisions to reap all of the belts at heavyweight too.
BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom believes Ngamba has all of the potential to go proper by means of to the best echelon of the game.
“She’s an exceptional expertise. She brings one thing completely different to girls’s boxing. She’s received a little bit of a swagger about her, she’s rugged,” Shalom stated of Ngamba.
“I feel she’s going to swimsuit the professionals. If ever there is a fighter’s going to swimsuit the professionals it will be her,” he informed Sky Sports activities.
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Andy Scott and Gary Logan focus on whether or not Cindy Ngamba is able to win a world title regardless of not even turning professional but.
“We thought who can we get within the combine with Savannah [Marshall] and Claressa within the middleweight division, there’s not many elite, elite fighters. She might be the one who goes on to attain huge issues within the skilled sport. For me I am already considering what time can we go and get that Claressa Shields combat.
“That is the objective. We have got to construct her, ensure that she will get all of the help, the appropriate opponents. She’s an exceptional expertise however, as I say, will swimsuit the professionals extremely nicely.”
An eventual conflict with Defend finally – “that is the objective”.
Shalom stated: “Everybody’s all the time stated that nobody can get close to to Claressa Shields. I imagine Savannah Marshall can in a rematch within the heavyweight division. I imagine Lauren Worth can get there and I imagine now Cindy Ngamba as nicely.
“Cindy and Lauren spar quite a bit. She’s an exceptional expertise, she actually is and what a narrative as nicely. It is nice as a result of it is so, so distinctive and completely different and he or she’s going to be a welcome addition to the game.”
Watch Ngamba on the Jonas vs Worth undercard on the Royal Albert Corridor stay on Sky Sports activities on Friday March 7.
