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Kenya's Rayton Okwiri in a recent bout with Meshack Mwankemwa of Tanzania at Charter Hall, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

As the World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa middleweight champion Rayton Okwiri gets ready for a World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight title fight on Sunday, he knows this is a perfect chance for him to achieve his dream of lifting a world title.

Until he wins the fight, he will not have achieved his cherished ambition.

Okwiri will be fighting Kenneth Lukyamuzi of Uganda for the vacant (WBA super middleweight) title in Port Louis, Mauritius having dreamt of a world title fight for a number of years before he hangs his gloves.

“It’s my dream to have a global title fight before I call it a day having ruled the local scene and the region in the pro-boxing in my weight,” Okwiri told Standard Sports when he was the Africa Boxing Union super middleweight champion before he was snatched the title by World Boxing Council for participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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