Simangele ‘Smash’ Hadebe delivered a classy performance in Sandton on Thursday night, putting a solid exclamation mark on ESPN Africa’s almost all-women tournament.
did it for themselves from most of the officiating to the bulk of the bludgeoning, and if one thing was clear, it’s that the ladies are improving their skill sets and earning their spot on boxing’s centre stage.
Hadebe, defending her African Boxing Union flyweight title, was too slick for over-matched challenger Stumai Maki.She boxed well from behind her jab, bobbing and weaving under her opponent’s shots and pounding away at head and body. Maki quit on her stool at the start of the fourth round, suffering from what seemed to be a dislocated shoulder, but she was never really in this contest.
The tournament was, by all accounts, a far more apt celebration of Women’s Month than Boxing SA’s Women In Boxing indaba in Durban this week, where basically women from the eight provinces outside of KwaZulu-Natal were not invited.In the co-main event popular Malawian Ellen Simwaka needed a split decision to keep her IBF Africa bantamweight title from Zambian challenger Lina Kasweka, raw but determined.
The two tore into each other from the opening bell and they didn’t let up, engaging in a high-octane slugfest that somehow went the scheduled 10 rounds.It might have been bloodless, but it was savage and brutal. The challenger soaked up serious punishment to the body, but she kept going forward and continued landing blows to the chin of Simwaka.The champion’s record improved to 11-5-2.
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