Boxing: Tua has Friday on his mind

Friday 'the 13th' Ahunanya has the height advantage over David Tua, but don't bet on him winning. Photo / Getty Images

If you'd just walked in off the street and saw the two squaring up in an Auckland pub you'd assume there would be only one winner. Surely the big black guy in the pink shirt with the bulging biceps would have little trouble taking care of the shorter, wider brown bloke?

Unless of course that shorter chap happened to be David Tua.

If boxing bouts were decided on appearances alone, Friday "the 13th" Ahunanya would be the runaway favourite for his bout with Tua in March at an as yet undisclosed venue.

But they aren't; and he won't be.

The US-based Nigerian is best known here for handing Shane Cameron his first loss in a bloody encounter in 2007. His last fight was also a decent performance, stopping another undefeated prospect, Alonzo Butler, in 2008. But there is little else on the 38-year-old's 24-5-1 resume to suggest he will trouble Tua in the second fight of his 2010 "Tua De Force" campaign.

Tua, who beat Cameron in a spectacular second-round knockout in October, is due to fight former world champion Bruce Seldon, 42, in Atlantic City on February 7. He will then meet Ahunanya in March before facing an unnamed opponent in Hawaii in May.