Heavyweight boxer Shafic Kiwanuka aka Killing Machine is set to part ways with his management company Great Strikers International.

Kiwanuka who last graced the ring in July 2022 against Argentina’s Fabian Nestor Insaurralde cites a breach of terms in his five-year contract by his management team. 

“I think it is the right time I move on and vie for greener pastures elsewhere. My boxing career has stalled. I opt to try something new,” Kiwanuka said.

Shafik Kiwanuka signed a sh100m deal

“Ever since I picked up a leg injury last year, Great strikers neglected me. Only my mum and my sponsor Hassan Alwi have been there for me yet I do have any other promotion company that I subscribe to. I’m disappointed in them. I have sat with my lawyers and plan to terminate their contract as soon as possible.” 

New Vision understands Kiwanuka penned a five-year contract with Great Strikers in January 2019 meaning he is left with a year to end his contract.

The 6 ft 5-inch towering heavyweight was to pocket a whooping sh100m in the said period with a clause of earning sh20m per year.

And according to Kiwanuka, not even a quarter of this money was paid to him.

“Take it from me, the sh100m I signed is a ghost contract. I have only received not more than sh8m from them. I was given sh2m in each of my last two fights.”

On top of issues with his purse, Kiwanuka accuses Great Strikers of failing to secure him mega fights.  

Kiwanuka and his management team show off one of the belts

However, great strikers boss, tycoon Sam Buchanan refutes Kiwanuka’s claims.

“I don’t get you when you say we have failed to meet Kiwanuka’s contract. Provide me with proof of his allegations because I have just had a call with him,” Buchanan noted.

“I can confirm to you we have provided Kiwa with everything. We have equipped him well during his training and we plan to get him lucrative fights.”

But Kiwanuka’s manager Emmanuel Mwesigwa had a contradicting statement.

“We have spent months without seeing Kiwanuka. So you wanted me to come running for him? On the said sh100m, I urge him to know that part of it was to cater for his preparation and promotion,” Mwesigwa said.

“If he wants to quit, let him do it. I have nurtured many boxers and I will keep doing this."

Since signing for great strikers in 2019, Kiwanuka’s ring record stands at five professional fights where he has lost none.

But official world boxing records only capture three fights. The former national boxing team and Kampala Boxing Club pugilist knocked out Kenya’s David Kamara on his debut before humiliating DR Congo’s Tyson Mbikayi.

His other victims include Zimbabwe’s Thamsanq Dube, drawing with South Africa’s Chris Thompson before knocking out Nestor in two minutes last year.