Promoter seeks title rematch as he takes result to court
Fight between Innocent Mantengu and Thato Bonokoane for the vacant SA junior featherweight belt wrongly declared a draw
Boxing SA may have to bob and weave its way to safety in the courtroom. That is because promoter Tshele Kometsi intends to go the legal route to force it to order a rematch between his charge, Innocent “Tycoon” Mantengu, and Thato “Captain Charisma” Bonokoane for the vacant SA junior featherweight belt. Their fight in Kagiso on Saturday night was wrongly declared a draw. Pumeza Zinakile voted Mantengu as the winner with a score of 116-112 and Simon Mokadi scored it 116-112 for Bonokoane while Jaap van Niewenhuizen scored it 114-114. In terms of the SA Boxing Act‚ if a championship fight for a vacant title ends in a draw, each judge should nominate a winner and the winner of the bout will be the boxer nominated as such by the majority vote of the judges. Boxing SA manager Archie Nyingwa‚ who was the fight supervisor‚ should therefore have returned the scorecards to all the judges to nominate the winner. The bout‚ which headlined the Team Dida Promotions bill at Kagiso Memorial Centre...
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