Bubbling with confidence, Namibia’s decorated pro boxer Jeremiah “Low-Key” Nakathila (26-4, 21 KOs) left Windhoek on Sunday, June 1, heading to the United States for his June 7 fight against undefeated American Abdullah Mason (18-0, 16 KO’s) at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.
The fight will be a co-feature of an ESPN telecast involving WBO lightweight champion Keyshawn Davis and Dominican contender Edwin De Los Santos in the main fight.
Nakathila was accompanied by his promoter, the celebrated Nestor Tobias, a former boxer who was a street fighter in his youth beating up the big boys.
Born and raised in the Northern Namibian village of Etundja, Nestor won the South African junior middleweight title in 1986 and made it to the quarter-finals of the 1991 African Games in Cairo, Egypt. He founded the Nestor Sunshine Boxing Academy in the 2000, and has risen to become one of Africa’s most accomplished promoters, winning the African Promoter of the Year in 2012 in WBO annual convention in New York.
Others in the entourage are coaches Nick Natangwe and SBK.
This is Nakathila’s fifth fight in the USA having made his debut in 2021, losing by a unanimous decision to WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson in a WBO interim super-featherweight title fight.
“I’m ready for the challenge ahead, I know the qualities of my younger opponent but I’m used to the big stage,” the 35-year-old Nakathila told boxersworld.co.ke.
The fight will be speed vs power as the American boxer is faster than the experienced Namibian whose main advantage is his raw African power. Bombs will explode on June 7.
“I’ve trained very well for the fight, I assure Namibians and Africa as a whole of nothing but victory in the USA.”
