FOLLOWING their superfeatherweight bout in South Africa on September 27, Azinga Fuzile is accusing Shavkat Rakhimov of being a cheat and Shavkat Rakhimov is accusing Azinga Fuzile of being a sore loser.
It started when Fuzile’s team accused Rakhimov’s assistant trainer, Ruslan Agishev, of using smelling salts on his fighter’s nostrils between rounds seven and eight of the pair’s fight at East London’s Orient Theatre on Sunday. (In the next round, Rakhimov, seemingly rejuvenated, stopped Fuzile.
That was bad enough. But now an already messy situation is about to get messier following the revelation that a collection of drugs and medical equipment labelled in Russian has been found abandoned in Rakhimov’s East London hotel room.