NEWCOMER TYIRHA IMPRESSES, STOPS SILILA IN THREE
Newcomer Nhlanhla “Showtime” Tyirha rewrote South African boxing history when he won the SA junior flyweight title in his fourth professional bout.
SOUTH AFRICA’S FUZILE STOPS TANZANIA’S CLASS IN SIX
South Africa’s Azinga Fuzile produced another outstanding performance as he threw punches with gusto to win the vacant IBF Intercontinental junior-lightweight title when Tanzanian Ibrahim Class quit on his stool at the end of round six in a scheduled twelve at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday afternoon.
PAUL DOGBOE CITES REASONS FOR ISAAC’S SHOCKING LOSS
Paul Dogboe, father and trainer of Isaac Dogboe, says his son lacked fitness in losing his WBO world super bantamweight title to Mexico’s Emanuel Navarrete last Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
MCHUNU OUTCLASSES OOSTHUIZEN, WINS ABU TITLE
In a battle of southpaws, Thabiso Mchunu gained revenge and added the African Boxing Union cruiserweight title to his South African cruiserweight crown when he completely outclassed Tommy Oosthuizen to score a unanimous 12-round points decision, in their return match, at Emperors Palace near Kempton Park on Saturday night.
SHOCKER! NAVARRETE UPSETS DOGBOE, WINS WORLD TITLE
NEW YORK – Emanuel Navarrete wasn’t nearly as big an underdog Saturday night as Buster Douglas was versus Mike Tyson 28 years ago.
LOMACHENKO DECISIONS PEDRAZA TO UNIFY TITLES
NEW YORK – Vasiliy Lomachenko almost knocked out another lightweight champion with a body shot at Madison Square Garden.
SCORPION VOWS TO RETIRE NURUDEEN
Ridwan “Scorpion” Oyekola, best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 15 has declared that he will send Nurudeen “Prince” Fatai, former national lightweight champion into retirement.
YANGA SIGQIBO DECISIONS KEUVIN LARA IN SOUTH AFRICA
Yanga Sigqibo won the vacant WBO Inter-Continental junior bantamweight Title by beating Keyvin Lara over twelve rounds here at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa.
PEREZ DEFEATS JARMANN TO REACH FINALS
In Salt Lake City, Albuquerque’s Abraham Perez defeated St. Louis’ Timothy Jarman by unanimous decision Thursday in the semifinals of the Elite men’s 114-pound weight class at the USA Boxing national championships.
DOGBOE, NAVARRETE MAKE WEIGHT FOR SATURDAY SHOWDOWN
Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe will make the second defense of his WBO junior featherweight world title against Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete. Dogboe snatched the title from Jessie Magdaleno back in April and defended it Aug. 25 with a first-round knockout over Hidenori Otake.