Moruti Mthalane spoke a little and sweated a lot at his send-off in Johannesburg on Wednesday ahead of his bid to recapture the International Boxing Federation (IBF) flyweight crown in Malaysia next weekend.His trainer-manager Colin Nathan had organised an informal farewell function with the 35-year-old fighter and Boxing SA CEO Tsholofelo Lejaka as the main attractions.Mthalane‚ with 35 wins and two losses‚ will try to lift the vacant belt from Muhammad Waseem‚ a 30-year-old Pakistani boasting an unblemished professional record of just eight wins with a bagful of amateur medals including a 2014 Commonwealth Games silver.They meet on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao’s newest welterweight title bid against Lucas Matthysse in Kuala Lumpur on July 14.Lejaka‚ as administrators often do‚ spoke plenty as he wished Mthalane luck‚ pointing out that he would become SA’s 11th reigning world champion‚ joining seven men and three women as holders of various world titles.But only Zolani Tete‚ the...
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