Hekkie Budler is the new world junior flyweight champion
Updated | By Jacaranda FM
Hector "Hekkie" Budler is a South African professional boxer that recently became one of the best boxers in the world.
We are so proud of our sportsmen and women that are doing amazing things around the world and the most recent man to join those ranks is Hekkie Budler.
Budler became the first South African to hold two major world crowns simultaneously after he won the IBF and WBA junior-flyweight titles.
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He recently competed in Japan and survived a late knockdown to narrowly outpoint Ryoichi Taguchi.
He joined Rian and the team on the Scenic Drive to chat about his new title.
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