Hospitalised South African boxer and former world champion Simpiwe Vetyeka received a speedy recovery message from an unlikely source while recovering from a hit-and-run accident. Vetyeka's boxing career hangs in the balance after he was hit by a car...
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Former undisputed WBA featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka will return to the ring against Colombian Rudolfo Puente in East London, South Africa on November 28. The fight which is originally scheduled to be the defence of Vetyeka’s WBA Internati...
Egis Klimas, manager of WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (4-1, 2KOs) of Ukraine, is looking at two potential opponents for his fighter's next return - which is being discussed for a November date in Dubai. One of the opponents in the mi...
The camp of South African fighter Simpiwe Vetyeka has decided on his next step and it wants him to challenge WBA featherweight champion Nicholas Walters. However Walters' promoter Bob Arum is reportedly reluctant to match the Jamaican against “V12...
Former WBA featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka got back to the win column when he shut out Mexican Arturo Santos Reyes to pick up the WBA international title but most significantly vaulted himself to world title contention, at Orient Theatre in Ea...
AFTER missing out on the chance to face IBF champion Evgeny Gradovich three weeks ago, former WBA featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka has decided to take a more winding route back to title contention when he battles Mexican Arturo Santos Reyes at...
Filipino WBC Asian Flyweight titlist Raymond Tabugon will be immersed in the most important battle of his life when he climbs to the ring to exchange blows against South African IBO International Jr. Flyweight champion Luzuko Siyo (13-2, 10 KO's) on...
Nonito Donaire became the new WBA world featherweight champion Saturday after defeating South Africa's Simpiwe Vetyeka in Macau in a fight that saw the Filipino boxing star take victory after an anti-climactic technical decision. The bout was stop...
Yang Ik blitzed through Geisler AP, power punching his way to a 1st round knockout in their super lightweight bout. AP was put down three times in total, though only two of the sequences were ruled official knockdowns. Ik - a local favorite - put...
Simpiwe Vetyeka is out to prove that his current stay atop the featherweight division is no fluke, while Nonito Donaire battles to make his way back to the top. The two collide for Vetyeka’s portion of the featherweight title Saturday evening at The...
WORLD Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka does not mind being treated like challenger in his first title defense against Nonito Donaire, Jr. of the Philippines. Since the fight has been announced as Top Rank’s headline...
Simpiwe Vetyeka believes Nonito Donaire’s style will help him win their title fight in Macao, China, on Saturday night. The South African, who is set to defend his WBA “super” featherweight belt against the Filipino veteran, has watched videos of...
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