Golden Gloves

Let’s firstly admit that the threatened “Armageddon” at Emperors Palace last night, between reigning IBO world super middleweight champion Isaac “The Golden Boy” Chilemba and his challenger Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen was hardly that

This is it…the pay-off, the decider and in the words of Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman; “South Africa’s battle of the new-millennium”! Thus follows one of Berman’s colourfully conjured-up labels, as unbeaten 21-year-old challenger Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen

At 21-years-of-age, the 6’4” Tommy Gun has, according to his trainer Harold Volbrecht, everything on his side. A southpaw, Oosthuizen owns a ramrod right jab, but despite his instinctive aggression, like most ‘lefties’, a great number of whom are counter-punchers, he can be content to win his bouts from the outside like he did when outboxing Jared “The Storm” Lovett in

Fight fans have waited long enough for this contest to become a reality and irrespective of their personal interpretations of the “DECLARATION OF WAR” bout between Malawi-born, IBO world super middleweight champion Isaac “The Golden Boy” Chilemba (15-1, with 8 knockouts) and Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen (11-0, with 8 knockouts)

Pssst!…Want to see the next generation of local ring stars ply their belligerent trade on Saturday night? Well, the scalpers are out and if fight fans still want to purchase  much sought after tickets for the “DECLARATION OF WAR” tournament at Emperors Palace this weekend, should make sure they get to Computicket in the next

While everyone in South Africa is talking about the “DECLARATION OF WAR” tournament at Emperors Palace on November 6, comparatively few pundits have given much thought to the respective trainers who guide IBO world super middleweight champion Isaac “The Golden Boy” Chilemba (Elias Tshabalala) and Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen into what could be a career-defining

When local fights experts select a winner of a particularly good ‘grudge’ fight, it often happens that the contest in question surprises all the soothsayers and pundits alike

Who do some of the experts, other than officials with both training camps- think is going to win the “DECLARATION OF WAR” contest between IBO super middleweight champion Isaac “The Golden Boy” Chilemba and Tommy “Tommy Gun” Oosthuizen on November 6 at Emperors Palace