By Monwabisi Jimlongo
Sabelo Ngebiyana has come down hard on Boxing South Africa (BSA) in an unprecedented attack he launched against the regulatory body.
Ngebiyana, who was stopped in the sixth round by Mexican boxer David Alan Picasso Romero in a World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver junior-featherweight title contest at the Arroyo Restaurant in Mexico City, Mexico, this past weekend, believes that BSA board members and administrators have no interest of the fistic sport.
“I have nothing to do with BSA. I really have no time for BSA. There’s a lot of wrong happening at BSA. Look at what happened before the awards in Durban. BSA went around asking for donations to transport nominees to Durban. I was an SA champion and I have never been invited to the awards. BSA is useless and those people don’t love boxing, they are only there for the money. I’m a licensee, not a BSA licensee. They cannot do anything against me,” Ngebiyana said.
Komani-born Ngebiyana is a former South African junior-bantamweight champion and is currently rated fourth in the junior-featherweight division despite him not being a BSA licensee.
Meanwhile, Ngebiyana sneaked out of the country for a fight in Russia against Armenian Narek Abgaryan without a clearance from BSA in August 2021. And BSA did nothing to him.
