FORMER International Boxing Organisation super middleweight champion Renold Quinlan has pledged to give back to his mother’s homeland and help rejuvenate boxing in Fiji with plans to fight in the country next month.
Quinlan, 30 also known as the Dunghutti destroyer, is an indigenous Australian (Aborigine) with maternal links in Nabukelevu Village in Kadavu.
“It’s time to bring the boxing back to Fiji,” Quinlan told this newspaper.
“We have to do it for the country and be proud to make a stand for it.”
Quinlan said it was possible to bring back Fiji’s glory days of boxing but an effort was needed from everyone to work together no matter what level they had reached.
“Anthony Mundine did it back home and helped lift boxing there, it’s only right that I do the same for our people.”
Quinlan who held the IBO Super middleweight title in 2017 believed a lot can be done for Fiji boxing with the right guidance.
“There is a lot of good talent here, I think they are just not being directed in the right path.
“We are capable of doing great things and producing champions.”
In 2016 Quinlan knocked out former world champion Daniel Geale to take the title before losing it to British boxer Chris Eubanks Jr the following year.
Quinlan will fight Samoan boxer Leti Leti this month in Australia on his campaign towards regaining the super middleweight title.
Quinlan arrived in the country with his family last week to attend a funeral on his wife’s side in Nasukamai Village in Ra, before flying out yesterday.
