The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Majuto Omary
26 June 2009
Popular boxer Awadh Tamim is set to exchange blows with Ashraf Suleiman in the vacant East and Central Africa heavyweight championship.
Tamim, who opted to be a no show during a Finnish Boxing Commission (FBC) sanctioned contest in 2007, returned home recently.
The outspoken boxer was scheduled to fight against Oleg Platov and duly took part in the pre-match weigh-in, only to be a no-show thereafter.
Since then, Tamim has been living in Finland. However, The Citizen could not establish what the boxer was doing in the last two years.
According to impeccable source, the former East and Central Africa heavyweight champion would take on Suleiman next month.
Tamim knocked out Kenyan Tom Okusi to grab the title in a boxing match held in Dar es Salaam.
The source said Tamim was undergoing intensive training ahead of the bout whose date and venue would be announced later.
"He has a few days in the country now and preparations for the coming bout are underway," he said.
Tamimu was the third boxer to vanish mysteriously after two others did the same during the 2000 Commonwealth Games.
Karim Matumla and Omari Iddi Kimweri were among a score of athletes who disappeared during the Melbourne games.
Sierra Leone alone had 14 athletes who went missing.
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