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2 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela
Dr Luvuyo Bayeni Picture: Supplied Dr Luvuyo Bayeni is back as a board member of Boxing SA (BSA), the regulator confirmed in a statement where sports, arts & culbure minister Gayton McKenzie is quoted confirming the return of the man who served in the board that the minister dissolved in August last year.
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3 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela |Masi Losi
Boyd Allen lands a punch on John Bopape to later win the WBA Pan African junior middleweight title. Winning the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) All Africa junior-middleweight against Kagiso Bagwasi at the Galleria in Sandton on June 21 will soothe the pain Boyd Allen suffered when he lost to Brandon Thysse for that very title in 2020.
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4 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela |Thapelo Morebudi
Boxing SA Acting CEO Tsholofelo Lejaka adresiing the media at the 2025 edition of the TLB Fists of fame Celebrity Boxing Bouts media briefing in Birchwood East of Johannesburg. Boxing inside the ring is on an upward trajectory, tournaments are coming thick and fast and Boxing SA (BSA) acting CEO Tsholofelo Lejaka says that progress has not gone unnoticed. “We, as Boxing SA, need to thank all our licensees for the progress,” he said yesterday.
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5 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela
The main contest is appetising as it features current WBO Inter-Continental bantamweight champion, Landile “Man Down” Ngxeke defending and also challenging for the vacant IBF International crown South Africa celebrates June as youth month to honour the role young people played in the fight against apartheid and the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The Soweto Uprising was a turning point in the struggle for liberation in SA.
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5 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela |Christo Smith
Focus shifts to Sechaba “Simply the Best” Zuma to win another SA boxing title this weekend for KwaZulu-Natal, says promoter Hlula Dladla, who said the mood is cheerful in his province after Lindelani Sibisi won the national title two weekends ago. Sibisi dethroned Zolisa Batyi as the featherweight champion in front of his own fans at Orient Theatre in East London. Zuma will enjoy territorial advantage at Town Hall in Estcourt, KZN.
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6 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela
Star amateur boxer Amzolele Dyeyi is sandwiched by manager Colin Nathan and trainer Shannon Strydom Former top amateur boxer, Amzolele “Globe” Dyeyi, has teamed up with No Doubt Management of Colin “Nomakanjani” Nathan. Nathan said the unbeaten 23-year-old fighter from Mdantsane, who has chalked up three wins since he turned pro in April last year, ahead of the 2024 Olympic qualifiers, signed a management contract with him over the weekend.
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6 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela |James Gradidge
Samuel Salva and Siyakholwa Kuse during The Coronation Boxing Tournament at Emperors Palace on May 31, 2025, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Siyakholwa “The One” Kuse should be commended for reaching the end of his 10-round non-title match with hard-hitting Filipino Samuel “Silent Assassin” Salva at Emperors Palace on Saturday.
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6 days ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela |Antonio Muchave
Uisman Lima and Shervantaigh Koopman during their IBO Junior Middle Weight World title at Emperors Palace in Ekurhuleni. Uisman Lima says it took courage to get out of his Portuguese comfort zone to register a successful defence of his IBO junior-middleweight belt, when he pummeled Shervantaigh “SK” Koopman in nine rounds on Saturday. The fight, scheduled for 12 rounds, headlined the Golden Gloves six-fight tournament.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela
Today marks 23 years since ABU junior-middleweight boxing champion Ruben Groenewald stunned a partisan crowd of more than 18,000 when he earned a unanimous decision over hometown hero Anthony Farnell to capture the vacant WBU middleweight title. The fight took place at the MEN Arena in Manchester, UK, on June 1, 2002. Farnell from Manchester had 29 wins and a single loss to Merdud Takaloo in a WBU junior middleweight title fight a year earlier.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Bongani Magasela
The Toweel boxing family continues to make history. Today, 75 years ago, 21-year-old Vic Toweel became the first SA boxer to win a world title. Nicknamed “Benoni’s Mighty Mouse”, Toweel beat Manuel Ortiz, who was recognised as one of the greatest bantamweight champions of all time. Ortiz, from the US, was a veteran of 110 fights, whereas it was only Toweel’s 14th fight. Nonetheless, Toweel defeated him on points after 15 rounds.
