Trainer savages 'brittle' Huni's US sparring tales

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Kiki Leutele's trainer Isaac Peach has labelled accounts of Justis Huni hurting sparring partners successful the US arsenic "bullshit."

Huni takes connected New Zealander Leutele (8-1-2), for the WBO Oriental, IBF Pan Pacific and WBC OPBF titles, astatine Brisbane's Nissan Arena connected Friday November 4, successful a bout that's been a agelong clip coming for the Kiwi.

Huni told Wide World of Sports of his caller exploits in the United States, spending much than a period successful West Hollywood grooming alongside Australian trainer Justin Fortune, who has worked with the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Mike Tyson and James Toney successful the past.

The 6-0 heavyweight impressed successful sparring with the WBC's No.3 ranked heavyweight Frank Sanchez, with sources telling WWOS that Huni near different sparring partners with cracked ribs.

"Who gives a shit?" Peach told Wide World of Sports. "Jerome Pampellone (fighter successful Peach stable) went to Australia to spar Jai Opetaia and broke his rib, but (Huni promoter) Dean (Lonergan) doesn't privation to speech astir that does he? Everything they accidental is afloat of shit.

"Frank Sanchez is conscionable a boxer. He's not a puncher. Who's Frank Sanchez? Who cares? We couldn't springiness a f---.

"They deliberation their crap don't stink, each they speech astir is the crap they're doing successful America.

"Mate we've gone to America with my different boys, it's each shit. We've done the hard aged fashioned grooming and we're going to sound Justis out."

Huni was primitively scheduled to look Leutele arsenic the co-main lawsuit connected Jai Opetaia's IBF cruiserweight rubric combat against Mairis Briedis, but it was derailed by COVID and injuries.

However, contempt the declaration being signed, Huni fought Joe Goodall, leaving Leutele successful a authorities of uncertainty.

Leutele has lone fought erstwhile this twelvemonth – a 2nd circular TKO triumph implicit Lui Te'o - but Peach believes the deficiency of respect shown by the Huni squad has fixed him the other information during camp.

"He's signed the declaration but there's been nary fight. It's been truly difficult. He's been surviving astatine my location a lot. He lives successful Napier and it's astir an hour's formation to the gym. He stays with maine Tuesday - Saturday and past flies backmost to spot his kids.

"We've gotten immoderate assistance regarding flights with a sponsor but not fully. It's been pugnacious connected his full household with his woman trying to enactment but she'd conscionable had a caller baby, truthful he's beauteous bloody driven to triumph the fight, there's a batch of reasons down it."

Peach said the mode his combatant has been treated, volition yet travel back to wound Huni.

"I've been successful Justis' camp with different 1 of my fighters. I cognize what Justis is about, and 1 happening Justis is, is simply a spot brittle, he's wounded prone truthful we're going to travel retired determination with our champion and enactment a deed connected him," Peach said.

"There's a batch of hype surrounding Justis, a batch of stories and that's good but we're the cleanable radical to beryllium them wrong.

"They ignored Kiki the full year, they were overlooking us. All they tin speech astir is their American sparring partners. Who gives a crap astir sparring? No 1 scores sparring.

"We're acceptable for war. When Kiki knocks him retired it volition beryllium karma."

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