Current location:World Wave news portal > entertainment
South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, 'The Rose of Soweto,' dies aged 57
World Wave news portal2024-05-21 19:10:40【entertainment】4People have gathered around
IntroductionJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The R
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 lightweight title in 1990 and the WBA lightweight title in 1993, when he beat American Tony Lopez in a rematch. He moved up to super-middleweight and beat Britain’s Glenn Catley for the WBC belt with a 12th-round stoppage in 2000, his finest moment.
He finished with a professional record of 40 wins, 14 losses and two draws.
Thobela hailed from the famed Johannesburg township of Soweto and was widely popular in his home country as his rise coincided with South African boxing’s heyday in the 1980s and 1990s.
He was one of several world-class Black fighters to emerge during the last years of apartheid, when boxing was one of the few South African sports to allow Black athletes to compete on the world stage and gain international recognition.
Address of this article:http://unitedarabemirates.lochsaege.com/content-60c699308.html
Very good!(68)
Related articles
- Amir Khan's £11.5m luxury wedding venue finally hosts its first marriage: Bride arrives on horse
- China's foreign exchange reserves fall to 3.2 trillion USD in April
- Man found dead after Ohio movie theater shooting. Person considered suspect is arrested
- Man found dead after Ohio movie theater shooting. Person considered suspect is arrested
- Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf is spotted on the streets of Gavin and Stacey's hometown Barry
- Chris Gotterup takes 4
- Brentford beats Bournemouth on Yoane Wissa's stoppage
- Man found dead after Ohio movie theater shooting. Person considered suspect is arrested
- College baseball notebook: Conference tournaments to decide NCAA automatic bids and many at
- Els, Barron tied for Regions Tradition lead at 13
Popular articles
Recommended
Minnesota Uber and Lyft driver pay package beats deadline to win approval in Legislature
Man found dead after Ohio movie theater shooting. Person considered suspect is arrested
Els, Barron tied for Regions Tradition lead at 13
Stuart Fairchild hits inside
Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored
I didn't realise a DEADLY hazard was hiding in the tiles of my new home
Martinez homers with two outs in the 9th inning to end Braves' combined no
Minnesota unfurls new state flag atop the capitol for the first time Saturday
Links
- Theatrical play in Athens unveils life after cancer
- Xinjiang leads growth in express deliveries
- Alibaba to invest $640m in HK's entertainment industry
- Role of finance in industrial upgrade gets experts' attention
- Guizhou gears up in computing
- U.S. blaming China for its shipbuilding problems lacks factual basis: MOFCOM
- Multiple safety issues haunt Boeing
- Secondhand economy a win
- Xi Stresses Mobilizing Workers to Participate in National Rejuvenation
- World Volkswagen Day celebration held in Colombo