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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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The new year may be a matter of weeks away, but it is already looking promising for South Africa’s top promoter. Rodney Berman is awaiting word on Tommy Oosthuizen’s next fight, which may potentially take place in America. Failing that, he will probably head the “Malice at the Palace” bill on March 3. Popular Hekkie
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Hekkie Budler is one of the most colourful boxers in South Africa today, a tiny fighting machine who has drawn comparisons to some of boxing’s best little men. A product of Johannesburg’s tough western suburbs, Budler was a star amateur – he boxed for South Africa – who has gone on to justify Golden Gloves
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It’s not often that you get to write the names Hekkie Budler and Wladimir Klitschko in the same sentence, but after a call from Ed Levine to Rodney Berman, it couldn’t be more apt. The IBO president has asked the Golden Gloves CEO to make the IBO strawweight champion available to appear on the undercard
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Emperors Palace was ablaze on Saturday night as a new welterweight king ascended to the throne. Chris “The Heat” van Heerden turned the temperature to boiling as he won the vacant IBO welterweight crown with a command performance against supreme challenger Kaizer Mabuza. The two waged an epic battle, arguably the best fight of 2011,
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Friday’s weigh-in was streamed live on Golden Gloves. Watch our edited version in case you missed the action
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Saturday’s Blockbuster bill, which features six compelling fights at Emperors Palace, will be broadcast live on SuperSport this weekend. The tournament will be headlined by exciting southpaw Chris Van Heerden’s 12-round meeting with Kaizer Mabuza for the vacant IBO welterweight title. Van Heerden is a fighter on the up, having recently dismantled the challenge of
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As much as Saturday night is a test for South Africa’s best young boxers, among them Hekkie Budler and Joey Stiglingh, it is also a test for precocious trainer Colin Nathan. Still just 33, the hard-working Nathan lives vicariously through his fighters: he shares their joys and successes, but, equally, he shares their failures and
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The recently deposed IBO light-flyweight champion, who hasn’t fought since surrendering his title to Gideon Buthelezi in January, is being given a tune-up on Mzi Mnguni’s Eyethu Promotions bill in East London on May
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Gideon Buthelezi’s reward for his superb performance against Hekkie Budler is a crack at the WBC flyweight title against champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam. Confirming the news, promoter Rodney Berman said that the only snag was that the fighter insisted on defending his crown at home in Thailand, although trainer Elias Tshabalala has no qualms travelling. Tshabalala
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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 ...