‘TUAMAN’ STAGES BOXING COMEBACK
One of boxing’s most feared punchers of all-time, Samoan knockout specialist David ‘Tuaman’ Tua, takes the next step in his comeback in a USA fight screening live and free-to-air on Māori Television this Sunday August 19 at 1.00 PM.
Ranked number 12 by the WBC, Tua headlines the Pinnacle FiteNite show against Mexican heavyweight champion Saul ‘La Cobra’ Montana in the 10-round co-main event from Salt Lake City in Utah. The three-hour sports special, TUA OF DUTY, is the first of three fights to screen on Māori Television. Details of the other two bouts will be announced at a later date.
Tua – who went the distance against undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis in 2000 – has accomplished just about everything in boxing except for winning a world title.
He has stopped 40 of his 47 victims (85 per cent) including current WBC title-holder Oleg Maskaev, as well as former world champions John Ruiz, Hasim Rahman and Michael Moorer. Montana has an even higher knockout ratio than Tua (42 of 48 for 87.5 per cent), but ‘Tuaman’ has never been counted out.
“Every fight is a title fight,” Tua told Pinnacle FiteNite from his Salt Lake City training camp about his new attitude. “That’s my whole approach – mentally, spiritually and physically. This is it! I’m taking a different approach, in my second time around, to the sport I love. Training hard is part of it but I have to be smart, too.
“This time around is different and I look forward to enjoying the sweet science. It’ll be pleasing to get another title shot and winning it, which would seal off my career, and I still have three, four years to do it.”
Get ready to rumble when David ‘Tuaman’ Tua takes on Mexican Saul ‘La Cobra’ Montana – live and free-to-air only on Māori Television – in TUA OF DUTY on Sunday August 19 from 1.00 PM to 4.00 PM.coming up ON MĀORI TELEVISION:
WARRANT OF FITNESS – Monday August 13 at 8.00 PM
Hine Haig (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) started smoking behind the bike sheds 30 years ago. With an uncle suffering with emphysema and whānau members dead from cancer, Hine finally resolves to stub out her habit – but can she kick smoking in the ‘butt’?
ITI POUNAMU – Monday August 13 at 9.30 PM
NZ Short Films, Dead Letters: On the home front in 1943, Ngaire and Gerald sort air graph letterforms destined for NZ soldiers abroad but a tiny act of heroism brings together this unlikely pair. Hosts Ainsley Gardiner and Tearepa Kahi kōrero with studio guest, writer and director Paolo Rotondo.
TEAM SPIRIT – Tuesday August 14 at 8.30 PM
International Documentary, Pakipūmeka ō te Ao: This tale of triumph and tragedy chronicles the hockey careers of Jordin and Terence Tootoo and their quest to be the first Inuk to play in Canada’s National Hockey League.
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE ASIAN – Thursday August 16 at 8.00 PM
Documentary series that explores and challenges prejudices and stereotypes in New Zealand society. Presenter Pio Terei spends time with members of a group – tonight it’s the Asian community – and soon learns that preconceptions and generalizations do not hold up.
NZ RUGBY LEAGUE NATIONAL PREMIERSHIP – Saturday August 18 at 2.00 PM & Sunday August 19 at 11.00 AM
It’s round 17 – the second-to-last before the semi-finals – with the Auckland Lions taking on the Waitakere Rangers in Saturday’s live English-language coverage followed by the Counties Manukau Jetz versus the Tāmaki
Titans in Sunday’s delayed reo Māori
commentary.
2007 MANA MĀORI BUSINESS AWARDS – Saturday August 18 at 9.30 PM
Exclusive coverage of the Auckland awards ceremony organised by the Māori Women’s Development Incorporated to honour the nation’s most prestigious indigenous entrepreneurs.
MĀ TĀTOU – Sunday August 19 at 6.30 PM
Iwi-tainment events show drops into the tā moko and mau rākau wānanga in Te Awamutu while studio guests Bodie Taylor and Christine Harvey kōrero about the evolution of these artforms from the old world to the new.
INFERNAL AFFAIRS – Sunday August 19 at 9.00 PM
Sunday Feature, Kiriata Rātapu: A gripping cop thriller set in the seedy underbelly of Hong Kong gangland about the parallel lives of a mole in the police department and an undercover cop.
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