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The Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town,
South Africa hosted a night of
entertaining professional boxing
on Friday June 23, headlined by
two fights for vacant World
Boxing Federation (WBF) All
Africa titles. And both WBF
bouts had surprising endings, in
different ways.
At Super Middleweight, in a
clash between two Congo-born but
South Africa-based punchers,
Jimmy Mabundji landed first and
quickly overwhelmed normally
durable Dido Mukanya, showing
vicious power to score a highly
impressive first round knockout
victory.
The new WBF All Africa Champion
improved his record to 8-3 (6),
and won his first title in the
paid ranks. Mukanya, suffering
his first loss inside the
distance, travels back to
Johannesburg at 9-5 (6).
Massive underdog Antonio Mayala,
from Angola but now fighting out
of South Africa, shocked
Johannesburg-favourite Jared
“Mr. Hollywood” Silverman to win
the WBF All Africa Welterweight
title, putting on what was
probably the best performance of
his career.
Mayala was ahead on all three
scorecards (79-75, 78-74 and
77-75), and had mostly been in
control of the action, when he
forced referee Eddie Marshall to
wave the fight off in round
nine, giving him a surprising,
but well-deserved, technical
knockout victory.
The first ever WBF Champion from
Angola, Mayala took his record
to 8-3 (5), while 25-year-old
Silverman, coming off five
straight victories, drops to 9-4
(4).
The show was promoted by
Kalakoda Promotions.
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