(JAN 19) Geovana Peres and
Lani Daniels have started their respected training camps ahead
of their World Title fight against each other on March 30th, in
Auckland New Zealand.
With 10 weeks to go till the
event, all hands are on deck getting the logistics of the event
done. Bruce Glozier of Glozier Boxing is expected to make an
announcement any week now about Ticketing details, venue, TV and
undercard. While Glozier is keeping busy event managing, Geovana
Peres and Lani Daniels are deep into their training camps.
Brazilian born New Zealander
Geovana Peres, has been non-stop training since her last bout
against Trish Vaka last December. Peres is part of Mayhem
boxing, comes with a massive team with Terry Reid Batchelor as
manager & Trainer, Alexey Papyshev as personal Trainer, Benjamin
Watt as Promoting/Marketing and Alex Sua assistant coach.
Geovana is well known as being a vegan, has a very strict diet,
especially during training camp. Along with her support team,
she sees a nutritionist to help her with her strict diet and to
make sure she gets all the right nutrition that she Geovana
Peres and Lani Daniels have started their respected training
camps ahead of their World Title fight against each other on
March 30th, in Auckland New Zealand.
Mayhem Boxing team has a big
stable of boxers to help Geovana with Sparring. Some known names
including Navosa “Smiley” Ioata, Commonwealth bronze medalist
Troy Garton and her coach Terry Batchelor. There is a rumour
that former WBO Oriental Champion and former top 10 WBO Ranked
Gunnar Jackson, is interested if helping Geovana Peres out with
sparring and help prepare for her World title bout. It is also
believed that Geovana sparring partners are now being carefully
selected due to Geovana injuring her sparring partners, mainly
by concussions.
Geovana Peres sparring partners have big plans for 2019. Troy
Garton will be defending her number one position in New Zealand
in a couple weeks time and hoping to qualify for the Olympics.
Navosa Ioata will be fighting on the Peres vs. Daniels
undercard, scheduled against Chris Rehu. Navosa “Smiley” is also
scheduled to fight Panuve Helu on April 20th for the New Zealand
National (NZPBA version) Cruiserweight title.
Whangarei, New Zealand born Lani
Daniels, has been very busy in her training. Nurse by day,
Boxing training by night. Lani Daniels family owns a gym in the
Northland area called “Tukaha Boxing”. Training there daily and
traveling to Auckland every Thursday, Friday and Saturday to
train with former World Muay Thai champion John “The Rebel”
Conway. Conway said “Lani train with me Thursday night Friday
morning Friday night Saturday morning and Saturday after noon.
The sparring is ruthless and often the rebel is backed up. The
rebel known as a evasive fighter is often caught with lani
speed”.
John Conway gym “Rebel Lee Gar” is a Boxing, Kickboxing and Muay
Thai focused gym in New Lynn, Auckland. It is well known for its
intense workouts, using old school type training and techniques.
The training and sparring this the gym are so intense, some
professional boxers have walked out half way through training.
Alongside Ants Fryer who trained under John Conway for 20 years,
Rebel Lee Gar is one of the best gyms in Auckland. The gym has
produced a lot of amazing fighters including former WBC ranked
boxer Baby Nansen, former WBA - PABA Champion Adrian Taihia,
David Letele Brown Buttabean and obviously Lani Daniels.
While Lani Daniels has been with John Conway, she has won her
second New Zealand title, gotten ranked in the WBA and has
received multiple World title offers, including a fight in
Croatia and obviously this confirmed bout against Geovana Peres
in New Zealand.
Geovana Peres vs. Lani Daniels a rematch from their bout back in
March 2018 for the New Zealand National (PBCNZ version) title.
Geovana Peres walked away with the victory by Split decision,
however John Conway believes it was a controversial decision. In
an interview with Gladrap Channel (Youtube channel), John Conway
said “It's such a credible sanctioning body, the WBO (World
Boxing Organisation), it's one of the Major ones. As big as the
planet is and as many girls there are fighters, it just happens
to be in our backyard. We have a promoter that has the balls to
put the tournament on, we have two girls that are credible
opponents that are prepared to fight each other… The girls have
fought before, it's a controversy decision against Lani Daniels,
I thought it should have been the other way.”
Both boxers have been really
humble during this preparing time, with very little trash talk.
Only trash talk has been between John Conway and Benjamin Watt
on Facebook and one cheeky comment from Lani Daniels. On
facebook Daniels responded to comment from her friend “She looks
bigger than you”, Lani replied with “it’s an illusion 💪🏽haha”.
In an interview with Gladrap Channel, Geovana Peres responded to
the comment saying “it could be an illusion…. Everybody is
entitled to their opinion”.
The rematch between Geovana Peres
and Lani Daniels will be on March 30th in Auckland, New Zealand.
The event is Promoted by Bruce Glozier of Glozier Boxing. The
undercard will feature Hemi Ahio, Panuve Helu, Andrei
Mikhailovich, Navosa Ioata, former top 15 in WBO, WBC and WBA
ranked boxer David Aloua, Vivesio Setefano, Semisi Kalu, Evander
Tia, Slade King and more. More announcements will be made over
next couple weeks with Venue, TV, Ticketing and confirmed
undercard.