Bangile Nyangani successfully defended his South African minimumweight title after he outpointed challenger Loyiso Ngantweni at The Galleria in Johannesburg on Thursday evening.
It wasn’t a pretty fight even though Nyangani from Bityi in Mthatha dominated Mqanduli-born Ngantweni, who is 14 years his senior.
Nyangani got the nod from all three judges with Thabo Spampool and Tony Nyangiwe’s score cards reading 118-110 and David van Niewenhuizen scoring the fight 120-108. This was the 27-year-old Nyangani’s first defence of the title he won when he dethroned Siyakholwa Kuse in East London last July.
