The Raven Report has donated R1000 to help get Xavier Cornelius, our South African National MMA Featherweight Champ to Georgia to represent the nation in the Worlds Championships over there.
And we would like to invite all our other national sports champs like the Springboks, Bafana Bafana, Dricus du Plessis and all other sporting code heroes, as well as Joe and Jane Public to make a contribution on Xaviers’s BackaBuddy page.
Every cent helps. Below is a detailed and transparent budget for what the money will be used. The fund-raising effort will stop as soon as the target of just under R300k is reached. Xavier's support team consists of his mom and dad, coach and assistant coach. So, including Xavier, its a team of 5 people traveling.
Since The Raven Report broke the story with our exclusive interview with the Champ, Xavier has been busy. He has a new coach, and he has being doing the rounds with local celebs to raise awareness, and of course we know they're going to come to the party with the fundraising effort.
Chantal Cornelius, Xavier’s mum, who is managing the fund, asked me to say thank you to the Cape Town Mayoral fund for their donation of R10k.
The Worlds event will be held in Tbilisi (pronounced as tuh·buh·lee·see) in Georgia where it is being billed as The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) 2026 World Championships, from November 1 to November 7, 2026.
And besides getting into peek condition to hand out a few cans of whipass at the event, Xavier and his team have to sort out the very demanding logistics of getting there, and as you can see from the budget it is very time consuming.
So help him to alleviate the stress of having to run around looking for funding, by dropping in some coin in the online fund.
Let’s get our golden boy to where he needs to be. Just click on the link to the BackaBuddy page, its very easy to do.
Thank you for your support.
