The man who as soon as educated American heavyweight king Riddick Bowe — plus a number of different stars like Shane Mosley, Amir Khan and Diego Corrales — has heaped reward on rising Australian star Justis Huni, saying he has “never seen someone” just like the younger Queenslander.

But that reward, you must know, was received the laborious approach, with Huni thought of a “donkey” when he first arrived in Los Angeles simply six weeks in the past.

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Undefeated in all six fights as knowledgeable, 23-year-old Huni is promising to proceed his fast rise by means of the heavyweight division with an enormous end over New Zealand rival Kiki Leutele in Brisbane tonight.

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Should the young heavyweight come good on his promise to KO Leutele, he is then looking to be catapulted into a huge top 10 showdown – with his management team already negotiating with vicious Khazakh finisher Zhan Kossobutskiy.

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One man who has little question about Huni’s potential on the world stage is US coach Goosen, whose Californian steady has included stars like Bowe, Mosley and Joel Casamayor.

Initially making headlines as an Olympic silver medallist, Bowe went on to develop into a two-time heavyweight champion. In 1992, he handed champ Evander Holyfield the primary lack of his profession to assert the undisputed WBA, WBC and IBF titles.

More not too long ago, Goosen has teamed up with each Ryan Garcia and Frank Sanchez, the latter a Cuban heavyweight now ranked No.3 with each the WBC and WBO.

During his current journey to the States, Huni sparred extensively towards Sanchez on the Hollywood health club of Australian Justin Fortune.

And in keeping with Huni’s father and coach Rocki, Goosen was extremely impressed with what he noticed.

Huni Sr additionally revealed nonetheless, that his son needed to work laborious to win over the American crew, revealing that when he first entered the health club for day one among sparring, no person even paused to shake the younger Aussie’s hand.

“They all thought Justis was some donkey walking in to be bashed,” Huni snr informed Fox Sports Australia.

“But after that first sparring session, all the other boxers, the trainers, they all came up to shake his hand.

“Even Joe said he’d never seen someone like Justis before.

“Said he had never seen a heavyweight who can throw the amount of punches Justis throws, and keep on them.”

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Justis Huni vs Kiki Leutele — heavyweight (IBF Pan Pacific Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation WBO Oriental titles)

Jerome Pampellone vs Faris Chevalier — mild heavyweight (vacant IBF Australasian title)

Clay AJ Waterman vs Mitchell Whitelaw — mild heavyweight

Benjamin Bommber vs Ankush Hooda — tremendous welterweight

Ben Horn vs Campbell Somerville — tremendous welterweight

Billy Polkinghorn def Broby Martin by way of TKO in Round 3 — light-weight

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After spending six weeks Stateside below the watchful eye of Fortune, Huni is now promising to make use of his headliner at Brisbane’s Nissan Arena so as to add one other first to his rising resume – giving Leutele the primary stoppage lack of his profession.

“He’s coming in to knock me out and I’m coming to do the same,” stated the Aussie who tipped the scales Thursday afternoon at 109.5kg.

Leutele, in the meantime, was 112.1kg.

“I’m looking to make a statement,” Huni continued.

“That’s what makes me so excited.

“I get to showcase everything that I’ve been up to in training.

“(Laughs) I haven’t just been laying around in bed.

“I’m dangerous.”

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Speaking after the weigh ins, Leutele additionally predicted a KO win over the undefeated Australian whereas his coach Isaac Peach revealed, regardless of taking just a few photographs at Team Huni all through the construct up, he was nicely conscious of the challenges his staff faces.

Quizzed on all of the speak surrounding Huni’s punching energy, Peach stated: “Justis can punch, man.

“He might not be the biggest puncher, but he can whack.

“I was ringside for his last fight against Joe Goodall, and he hurt him in the first round.

“So if I was Justis’s coach I wouldn’t change a thing.

“He has skills that nobody else has.

“So f … ing use them.

“I’m actually a fan of Justis Huni.

“But I’m a fan of Kiki Leutele even more.

“We know we’re the underdogs in this one. But that’s fine, we love that role.”