Boxing South Africa (BSA) chiefs are going to meet with the regulatory body’s legal team on Wednesday to decide on a date as to when J4Joy Boxing Promotions bosses should be hauled over the coals.
J4Joy Boxing Promotions bosses are going to be asked to explain themselves following their failure to stage a tournament in Durban last month.
“They are going to appear before our legal team probably on the third or last week of this month. Whatever happens to them must happen this month. We are going to meet with our legal team and decide on a date,” acting BSA chief executive officer Erick Sithole revealed.
Initially, J4Joy Boxing Promotions had scheduled a tournament at the iconic Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Sunday, 11 December, but ran into serious problems something which necessitated two postponements.
Still, the tournament couldn’t go on on the third date despite the number of bouts having been cut into half after the promoter’s failure to meet overseas boxers’ financial obligations as well as the non-payment of a sanctioning fee to the World Boxing Federation (WBF).
The three bouts that were going to take place were the KwaZulu-Natal junior-welterweight title fight between Lindokuhle Dlamini and Ntethelelo Nkosi as well as the South African junior-welterweight bout where current champion Prince Dlomo was going to defend his crown against Marcus Lebogo.
The vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan-African bantamweight title fight between Rofhiwa Nemushungwa and Fillipus Shaanika from Namibia was also slated to take place.
However, the vacant International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Intercontinental lightweight title contest between Azinga ‘Golden Boy’ Fuzile and Mexican Rene Tellez Giron, Mapule Ngubane’s World Boxing Organisation (WBO) International female middleweight fight against American boxer Maricela Cornejo as well as the WBF bantamweight bout between Ronald Malindi and Jorge Luis Orozco Mendoza from Mexico had already been scrapped from the bill.
