South African junior flyweight Samora Msophi who was stopped in the fourth round of a title fight against champion Mfundo Gwayana at the Orient Theater has died in an East London hospital in South ...

JOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO ...

Sport, arts and culture minister Gayton McKenzie has defended his absence at the arrival of newly crowned WBC minimumweight ...

The return of Dmitry Bivol headlines a jam-packed weekend of boxing!

While great achievements have been taking place within the boxing ring in South Africa, the social chain reaction outside it has been perhaps even more significant. In the 1970s and 1980s, human ...

SA Boxing fans will get to enjoy a textbook grudge match on July 25 when Jarred Silverman and SD Pypers finally get their ...

"Our beloved father passed away three weeks after being admitted to hospital," his daughter Thembi told AFP without disclosing the cause of death. Mathebula created history in Los Angeles in 1980 when ...

Still reeling from the shocking death of one of the country’s bright prospects Anele Makhwelo on Wednesday, South African boxing has been hit by yet another tragedy following the death of boxing ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African former world heavyweight boxing champion Cornelius "Corrie" Sanders died on Sunday after being shot by armed robbers who burst into his nephew's 21st birthday ...

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