EFC AFRICA Lightweight Championship
COSTA IOANNOU vs. ADAM SPEECHLY
EFC AFRICA Featherweight Championship
DEMARTE PENA vs. WESLEY HAWKEY
Plus
BERNARDO MIKIXI vs. MAHMOUD HASSAN
GARRETH MCLELLAN vs. DANIE VAN HEERDEN
JP KRUGER vs. MAWANDE VAPI
FRANCOIS KABULU vs. AMR WAHMAN
WENTZEL NEL vs. DENZIL WAIT
TERRENCE GRIESSEL vs. GARETH BUIRSKI
WADE GROTH vs. MARKUS TALJAARD
DAVID BUIRSKI vs. KELVIN MWALE
KOBA IAKOBIDZE vs. ALAIN ILUNGA
ALEX CHEBOUB vs. ASHLEY CALVERT
TSHIKANGU MAKUEBO vs. JAMES LE ROUX
Johannesburg (South Africa)– With just 11 days to go until EFC AFRICA featherweight champion Demarte Pena faces Wesley Hawkey in the hexagon, the Angolan champ is winding down his most intense training camp to date.
“I’m very excited about this fight,” says Pena. “This is the first time I’ve had a proper training camp and I’ve been training to defend my title since November 2011. I’m a very different fighter to what I was in my last fight and I think people are going to see a new side of me. Wesley seems to think I have no stand-up so it’ll be interesting to surprise him. I’m better-rounded now but obviously still a very good wrestler, so if all else fails he’s going to the ground.”
When Pena joined EFC AFRICA he was a small featherweight, weighing in at just 63 kilograms without cutting any weight. “I’ve put on quite a bit of muscle since then. For my second fight I was 64kg, when I fought Leo for the title I was 65kg, and now I’m 71kg. This will be my first weight cut at EFC AFRICA and I don’t expect it to be difficult at all; I expect to be much fitter, faster and stronger than ever before.”
Pena explains that the vast majority of hard work is behind him and that the remaining days will be spent on game plan-specific drills, recovery and tactics. “Many other camps would be training really hard right now but that would leave the athlete exhausted on fight night. We trained really hard over the first few weeks and now just have game plan implementation and visualisation to do. I believe so strongly that I will defend my title that I can already hear EFC announcer Shane ‘The Duke’ Wellington saying ‘And still the EFC AFRICA featherweight champion, Demarte ‘The Wolf’ Pena!’”
EFC AFRICA 14 takes place at the Carnival City Big Top Arena on 1 June. Tickets on sale at Computicket www.computicket.com and tickets for the live broadcast to Nu Metro Cinemas available at www.numetro.co.za More information available at efcafrica.com