FORMER IBF junior featherweight world champion Vuyani Bungu has ended months of speculation by saying that he will resume his boxing career. There was a lot of speculation regarding Bungu’s future after his dismal performance against Naseem Hamed in March. He was stopped in four rounds by the WBO featherweight world champion in a fight he was never really in. “I can’t just leave it like this,” says Bungu “I’ll be talking to my promoter on Thursday and we’ll work something out to get me back into the ring.” Bungu accepted the bout against Hamed on short notice and after being inactive for just over 12 months. It was his first bout as a featherweight and although he would have preferred to have had a warm up fight, he was afraid of losing the chance of fighting Hamed. A fight he’d been trying to get for four years. “I don’t know what happened to Bungu against Hamed,” said Bungu’s promoter Rodney Berman. “He just froze up when he climbed into the ring.” Bungu made 13 successful defence of his junior featherweight world title and scored victories over some of the top fighters in the division, including twice against Kennedy McKinney (in his prime); Ernesto Grey and Danny Romero. His only losses came at the hands of Freddie Norwood, current WBA featherweight world champion, former world title contender Fransie Badenhorst (A defeat he later avenged) and Hamed. “I’m a better fighter than what I showed against Hamed,” says Bungu “I want to set the record straight.”