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Both World Boxing Federation
(WBF) male and female World
Bantamweight titles will be on
the line on Friday March 31,
when Lyon Promotions, Dream Team
Promotions and Amandla
Promotions collaborates to stage
a big show at the Oliver Tambo
Hall in Cape Town, South Africa.
Undefeated local contender
Mzuvukile “Old Bones” Magwaca
will take on Filipino champion
Jason Ganoy for the vacant WBF
World Bantamweight crown, and
reigning South African national
king-pin Bukiwe Nonina faces
former world champion Alesia
Graf from Germany for the
women’s version.
Mzuvukile Magwaca, 17-0-2 (10)
has won several regional
championships, including the WBF
All Africa, since turning
professional in 2009. While he
has beat numerous good
opponents, Jason Ganoy, 26-6-2
(19), is likely to be his
stiffest test in what is both
boxers first world title fight.
Bukiwe “Anaconda” Nonina, 10-4-1
(2), will certainly be in with
her toughest foe, since losing
to current WBC world champion
Catherine Phiri in November of
2014. Since then she has gone
unbeaten in five straight
outings, but hasn’t fought
anyone near the level of Alesia
Graf.
36-year-old Graf, 29-5 (13), has
had an amazing career, since
making her paid debut in 2004.
With twenty championship fights
on her ledger, fifteen of them
victories, she is one of the
most accomplished female boxers
in the game.
In March and June of 2014 she
lost two world title fights in
Mexico, both on points to Zulina
Munoz and Yazmin Rivas, but she
is coming off three straight
victories and travels to South
Africa focused on showing the
boxing world that she is still
one of the best.
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