Martial arts champ takes on new challenge
Cameron Meintjes plans to take a break and focus on building his own coaching practice.
MIXED martial arts enthusiast, Cameron Meintjes’ (24) emphatic win in his EFC 60 bout at Sibaya Casino on Saturday, 10 June was his swansong in the ring, at least for a while.
The local fighter now looks to take a break on competing, while focusing on building his own coaching practice.
“This fight was on the main card of EFC 60, which was televised on SABC,” explained Cameron. “It’s the highest level of MMA on the continent.”
Cameron’s opponent was Johannesburg’s Gordon Roodman. “He’s a big name in the organisation because of his exciting and aggressive fighting style.”
Cameron has been doing MMA for almost 12 years, originally taking up the sport to lose weight and get fit. He had preparing for this event since February, when he was first offered the fight.
“Roodman is a brawler and always tries to engage his opponents, but I managed to stay just out of range of his striking attempts,” explained Cameron. “I landed strikes of my own. I took him down and continually threw strikes and made submission attempts.”
Cameron grinded out the victory by an unanimous decision over three rounds.
Read more about Cameron’s decision to bow out of the competing ring for a while in tomorrow’s edition of the South Coast Sun Newspaper.
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