The event, which will feature the likes of professional heavyweight boxer and former All Black Liam Messam facing Joe Ageli, will consist of four professional boxing bouts, one amateur kickboxing bout, and 16 corporate boxing bouts. Money raised is going towards the treatment of Tauranga 8-year-old Antonio Pohatu-Barbarich who is being treated for brain cancer at Starship Hospital. Morrison said if someone told her two years ago that she’d be competing she’d have thought they were crazy. “I would be like hell no, that is not something I want to do, are you stupid?” she laughed.
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Former All Black cum professional boxer Liam Messam will feature in the Gofox Iron Fist 10 Charity Fight Night at Lake Karapiro’s Don Rowlands Centre (file photo).
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Liam Messam, in action at Chiefs training on Thursday, has been invited to “spread a little bit of grey hair on the young fellas”.
Chiefs legend Liam Messam may just not have played his final game of Super Rugby after all, though, for now, it’s boxing, and a heartfelt cause, which is occupying most of the former All Black’s attention. Having notched a record 179 matches for the franchise between 2006 and 2018, including captaining them to their two titles, Messam has been back in Chiefs colours – well, the bright purple and teal training hues, at least – the past few months after taking up an invitation to “spread a little bit of grey hair on the young fellas”.
Rotorua s Liam Messam wades into nephew s brain tumour battle
14 Mar, 2021 10:36 PM
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Former All Black Liam Messam is stepping into the boxing ring for his nephew. Photo / Supplied
Former All Black Liam Messam is stepping into the boxing ring for his nephew. Photo / Supplied
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Originally published by Māori Television
A former All Black - Rotorua s Liam Messam - is gearing up to fight in the boxing ring for his nephew who is being treated for a brain tumour.
In November last year, Messam s nephew, Antonio Pohatu-Barbarich of Tauranga, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a cancerous tumour at the base of his skull.
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