South African junior flyweight Samora Msophi who was stopped in the fourth round of a title fight against champion Mfundo Gwayana at the Orient Theater has died in an East London hospital in South ...
JOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO ...
On May 31, 1950, possibly the most historic day in South African boxing, in Johannesburg, South Africa, more than 20 000 people saw Vic Toweel climb through the ropes at Wembley Stadium to become the ...
SA Boxing fans will get to enjoy a textbook grudge match on July 25 when Jarred Silverman and SD Pypers finally get their ...
While great achievements have been taking place within the boxing ring in South Africa, the social chain reaction outside it has been perhaps even more significant. In the 1970s and 1980s, human ...
21-year-old rising talent Tyla Promnick made some history in the process of becoming the South African mini-flyweight ...
Still reeling from the shocking death of one of the country’s bright prospects Anele Makhwelo on Wednesday, South African boxing has been hit by yet another tragedy following the death of boxing ...
"Our beloved father passed away three weeks after being admitted to hospital," his daughter Thembi told AFP without disclosing the cause of death. Mathebula created history in Los Angeles in 1980 when ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders died on Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew's 21st birthday ...
Today (January 19), Burna Boy hit the boxing ring with his friend and frequent collaborator South African rapper AKA in South Africa. AKA is an avid boxing fan and he regularly hits the ring in ...
JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the ...
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