(FEB 5) Two division New Zealand national champion “The NightMea” Motu will be fighting on the 12th of February with the aim to break the 14-year record for holding the most New Zealand national titles in the women's division.

In New Zealand, there are four national commissioning bodies in the professional boxing industry. Professional boxing commission of New Zealand (PBCNZ or NZPBC est 2016), Pro Box New Zealand (est 2012), New Zealand National Boxing Federation (NZNBF est 1980s) and New Zealand Professional Boxing Association (NZPBA est 1960s).

The record for the most national titles by a female boxer is currently held by multiple women, however, the person that first reach the record was Daniella Smith, winning the NZPBA Super welterweight title in 2006 and NZPBA Welterweight title in 2008.

Former WBO World champion Geovana Peres was the second person to match the record by winning the NZNBF Light Heavyweight title and NZPBC Light Heavyweight title in the same year of 2017, becoming the first female to win a title from two different commissioning bodies. The third person that has reached that record was Lani Daniels when she won the NZPBA Light Heavyweight title in 2017 and Pro Box NZ Super Middleweight title in 2018, becoming the first female to win two different titles from two different commissioning bodies and different weight divisions at the same time.

Mea Motu is the most recent boxer to match the record with her winning the NZPBA lightweight title and NZPBC Super Lightweight title last year. Next weekend she aims to beat the record that was set 14 years ago by Daniella Smith. Not only is she wanting to beat the women's record, she is wanting to beat the men's record, which is held by Sean Sullivan.

Sean Sullivan has held the record for most New Zealand national titles in the professional boxing industry for almost two decades which seems to be impossible to break. He has won the New Zealand Welterweight title in 1994 against Monty Bhana, Super Welterweight title in 1994 against Alberto MaChong, Super Welterweight title again in 1999 against Alan Gibson, Middleweight title in 2001 against Alan Gibson, Super Middleweight title again in 2001 against Frank Faalenuu, Light Heavyweight title in 2002 against Sam Leuii and again Light Heavyweight title in 2003 against Daniel Tai. Which is a total of 7 titles in 5 weight divisions.

Mea Motu won her NZPBA Lightweight title against the first female New Zealander to win the Australasian title, Tania Reid in March last year. Motu won her NZPBC Super Lightweight title against the former Pro Box NZ welterweight champion Michaela Jenkins in July last year before going into lockdown.

Next weekend she will be going up against the tough Ayisha Abied in their third encounter, but this time the vacant NZPBC Featherweight title will be on the line.

Mea Motu is also booked in to fight Michaela Jenkins in their third encounter as well, but this time for the vacant NZPBC Lightweight title on March 19th.

And when you think she can’t get any busier, freshly announced this week, Mea Motu is booked in to fight former WBC world-ranked boxer Baby Nansen for the NZPBC Super Featherweight title in the biggest New Zealand women's boxing fight for 2022. This will happen once New Zealand current covid levels go down.

Mea Motu vs Ayisha Abied is New Zealand's first boxing event of 2022. Due to the current covid levels in New Zealand, tickets are extremely limited, however, the event will be streaming on PPV online at https://fightshow.live/motuvsabied3

Everyone across the world can access this PPV event online.

The event will feature multiple exciting amateur boxing fights including the rematch between Roma crichton vs Joseph Parker former sparring partner Matt Mataika, New Zealand Golden gloves champion Wendall Stanley, multiple Peach Boxing boxers including Erin Walsh, Sonny Morini, Omid Azizzi and many many more.

Peach Boxing won multiple awards in 2021 including Trainer of the year, Matchmaker of the Year, Promoter of the year and gym of the year. As always you should not miss any of their events or any of their fighter that compete.

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