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IBO Africa lightweight champion Jason “Badman” Bedeman (10-0-2) is hunting IBO world lightweight titleholder Mlungisi “The Shark” Dlamini (19-0) and means to dismantle the KwaZulu-Natal warrior if the opportunity avails itself. “We have no problem fighting Dlamini” said Bedeman’s trainer Manny Fernandes, who though first has a February 27 date for his blossoming young tiger
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Jason “Badman” Bedeman (10-0-2, 8 knockouts) along with Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen (9-0, 7 knockouts) and Flo “The Demolition Man” Simba (2-0, 2 knockouts) were Golden Gloves Promotions’ ‘KO’ thrill-providers during 2009!
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Southern Suburbs fighter Joey Stiglingh (7-0, with 4 knockouts) could emerge as one of Golden Gloves Promotions’ brightest young stars in 2010. This opinion is shared by several knowledgeable ringside pundits, among them veteran matchmaker Ruben Rasodi
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Tough-as-nails former SA super middleweight champion Andre Thysse (20-8, with 12 knockouts) is determined to win a world title during 2010. Now competing as a light heavyweight, the 40-year-old Thysse has been fighting professionally for over a decade, during which time he’s swapped punches with some of the finest super middleweights on the planet!
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Accustomed as this writer is to rainbows that fade, I found it highly illuminating to hear two-time Hall of Famer Brian Mitchell proclaim Flo “The Demolition Man” Simba (2-0, both 1st round knockouts) as the “potentially greatest heavyweight in the history of South African boxing”
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Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman admits that IBF featherweight champion Cristobal Cruz (39-11-1, 23 knockouts) faces a trying test on Saturday night in Chiapas, Mexico when he defends his world title against Ricardo Castillo (38-7, 25 knockouts)
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‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’ wrote the poet, and for South Africa’s Hekkie “The Hex-ecutioner” Budler (13, 0, with 5 knockouts) the hour is close at hand. Indeed, on February 27 at Emperors Palace Casino
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IBO All Africa junior flyweight kingpin Hekkie “The Hex-exutioner” Budler is within reach of winning world honours! So says Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman, whose respect for the diminutive Budler is such that he plans for the 21-year-old lover of snakes (Pythons especially) to fight for a global championship in 2010!
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Rodney Berman, Stan Christodoulou, Gerrie Coetzee, “Baby” Jake Matlala, Brian Mitchell, Laurie Stevens, Dingaan Thobela, Vic Toweel, Willie Toweel and Jake Tuli.
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Most boxing promoters are satisfied with having a single drawcard, or as they’re often called, “box-office magnets”, on their books, so one can just imagine how Golden Gloves Promotions CEO Rodney Berman feels about having five such fighters under his banner
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Simba-Bruwer hotting up
I like the way issac fights I still think that fight with tomy wasn't a draw to me isac won ...
Simba-Bruwer hotting up
Ruben, im not disputing your skills or ability to pull a crowd. I enjoy your fights because you give 100% ...
Simba-Bruwer hotting up
Let's let the man fight and see wat his got let's all keep quiet and let him do the talkin ...