FLYWEIGHT CHAMP HADEBE BACK IN ACTION
South Africa’s most active female boxer and award-winning reigning national flyweight champion Simangele ‘Smash’ Hadebe will be back in the square ring later this month. Hadebe is scheduled to trade…
WHY NDONGENI IS CONSIDERING THROWING IN THE TOWEL
By Monwabisi Jimlongo Politics, greed and jealousy among rival promoters are behind former world champion Xolisani ‘Nomeva’ Ndongeni’s decision to consider throwing in the towel and quit boxing, a sport…
NO END IN SIGHT IN MPONTSHANE IMPASSE
By Monwabisi Jimlongo The fight to make sure that South African junior-lightweight champion Phila Mpontshane gets 10 percent of the purse he signed for before his fight against Sibusiso Zingange…
BELL RELIEVED AS BELT ARRIVES
By Monwabisi Jimlongo Gqeberha-based female boxing champion Nozipho Bell is relieved now that her International Boxing Federation (IBF) Intercontinental belt has finally arrived even though it’s yet to be handed…
MPONTSHANE’S MANAGER STANDS HIS GROUND
By Monwabisi Jimlongo Phila Mpontshane’s manager Andy Mtshotshisa has refused to back down and apologise to TK Boxing Promotions boss Tshele Kometsi and the Gauteng Boxing Promoters Association (GBPA) for…
CONTROVERSIAL SPLIT DECISION WIN FOR MAKABU
Ilunga Makabu successfully defended his World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight title with a controversial split decision win over Thabiso Mchunu at the Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio, United States…
SMITH SEES A DIFFERENCE AS MAKABU CLASH LOOMS
Boxing trainer Sean Smith reckons that circumstances are different now than they were when his boxer Thabiso Mchunu was stopped by Ilunga Makabu from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
BOTSWANA BOXER BAGWASI DEFEATS VETERAN SIBIYA
Steven Bagwasi from Botswana showed veteran Koos Sibiya no respect as he defeated him by a split decision in a 10-round bout at the UFC Centre in Paulshof, Johannesburg, on…
DATE SET FOR CASIMERO, BUTLER FIGHT
The championship committee of the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) has granted formal sanction approval for the fight between champion Johnriel Casimero and Paul Butler. The mandatory title fight between Casimero…
NEW TWIST IN OKOLO’S ‘DISAPPEARANCE’ AS HIS PROMOTER SUBMITS DOCTOR’S CERTIFICATE TO BSA
By Monwabisi Jimlongo There is a new twist in the ‘disappearance’ of Gqeberha boxer Thembani ‘Guitarman’ Okolo, who was scheduled to challenge South African minimumweight champion Bangile Nyangani from Bityi…
