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World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens World Super Welterweight
Champion Noni Tenge, 19-1-1
(10), will make the third
defense of her title on Sunday
August 25 at the Indoor Sports
Centre in the Mdantsane township
of East London, South Africa.
She will be going over familiar
ground, as her opponent will be
compatriot rival Mapule Ngubane,
8-7-3 (1), who is aiming to make
it third time lucky against
Tenge, after losing twice on
points in entertaining previous
encounters.
Tenge, who has been operating at
world level for almost ten
years, won the WBF International
and World Welterweight titles in
2009, and made two defences of
the WBF world championship in
2010 before adding the IBF world
title in 2011.
In 2012 she suffered her sole
defeat, when American Layla
McCarter defeated her in a bid
to win the WBA World Super
Welterweight crown, but in 2012
she picked up the Interim WBA
World Welterweight title, before
returning to Super Welterweight
in 2015 to win her second WBF
World title.
Nicknamed “She Bee Stinging”,
Tenge is perhaps the most
underrated current world
champion at Super Welterweight,
and many believe she only needs
the right opportunity to prove
that she can beat all her
counterparts on the world scene.
But first she has to get by
Ngubane again, and she will know
that, based on their previous
bouts, it is likely going to be
a hard nights work against a foe
with a deceivingly mediocre
record. However, its a chance to
make a statement by winning in
more impressive fashion this
time around.
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