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February 2nd 2012

With a month to go to the first Golden Gloves tournament of 2012, at Emperors Palace on March 3, the focus has shifted to arguably the most intriguing fight on the card: Flo Simba against Daniel Bruwer. While Tommy Oosthuizen’s bout has attracted interest, there is every chance that the Simba-Bruwer eight-rounder could steal the

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February 2nd 2012

Big-time boxing returns to SuperSport this weekend with two separate world championship tournaments on offer. The first, taking place in Germany on Saturday night, will be a rematch between Yoan Pablo Hernandez and Steve Cunningham for the IBF cruiserweight title. The action will be broadcast from 8pm on SuperSport 2. This will be followed on

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February 1st 2012

Rodney Berman has finalised the cruiserweight Super Eight line-up, but there’s just one problem – he’s not telling anyone. “Wait for the announcement on February 24,” he said before hastening to add that he had made a significant change to the original concept. “My original plans were to make it an all-Africa affair, but a

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January 31st 2012

Notwithstanding his lifetime career as a boxing promoter, Rodney Berman isn’t a fighting man. However, he is on the warpath this week after becoming victim to a tiresome succession of potshots by Boxing South Africa and the like. Berman is apparently the nameless “monopoly” controlling boxing, the so-called “monopoly” BSA so publicly want to break

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January 26th 2012

When Florante Contes fell out of a tree in the Philippines, as he claimed he did this week, the impact on Golden Gloves’ March 3 tournament at Emperors Palace was significant. Contes’ unavailability for his IBO title challenge against Hekkie Budler put a spanner in the works and forced a frantic runaround by Golden Gloves.

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