Boxing trainer Colin Nathan is leaving nothing to chance ahead of his fighter Hekkie “The Hex-ecutioner” Budler’s forthcoming IBO world junior flyweight title bout with Juanito Rubillar of the Philippines. The two boxers will be fighting for the vacant IBO title on February 27 at Emperors Palace.

When any boxing promoter has produced over seventy world champion, it’s safe to say that he’s vastly experienced in his particular field, and this is especially true of Golden Gloves Promotions CEO Rodney Berman, whose been in the fight mart since the mid-Seventies.

With the vast amount of comments being sent to the Golden Gloves website daily (www.goldengloves.co.za) your writer thought it expedient to invite our contributors (Badman Fan, Britt, Deon, Karen, Simon, Jason, Barbara and all the other valued patrons) to vote who they feel is South Africa’s most exciting boxing drawcard at present.

Ever since July 29, 2006, Emperors Palace and Golden Gloves Promotions have jointly forged a boxing pedigree comparable to some of the most successful of it’s time. Certainly it was an evolutionary move when South Africa’s longest running boxing consortium

Boxing intelligentsia will no doubt concur that the “PRELUDE” fight bill at Emperors Palace on February 27 is the ideal launching pad for what Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman has said will be “one of the most exciting years in the history of South African boxing”!

Australia-based South African Lovemore Ndou will give Matthew Hatton another crack at his IBO world welterweight title in March or April. This was confirmed by Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman today.