Sabelo Skiti
Daily Dispatch Online
South Africa
28 July 2009

WOMEN’S boxing will take centre stage next month when local promoter Siphatho Handi brings four title fights involving women to the Orient Theatre in East London.

There will be six championship fights on the bill, including the much-awaited men’s SA junior-bantamweight bout between Themba Joyi and Miniyakhe Sityata.

Three of the fights will be for World Boxing Foundation belts, and of the three national titles up for grabs at the celebrations, two will be for vacant South African women’s titles.

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Gary “Digital” Williams and Kurt Wolfheimer at ringside
Fightnews.com
Baltimore MD, USA
26 July 2009

Baltimore, MD welterweight prospect James “Keep ‘Em Sleepin’ Stevenson remained undefeated and captured the WBF US Welterweight and NABC Welterweight titles with a third-round TKO over Ken Dunham of Rock Hill, SC at Du Burns Arena in Baltimore.

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Rick Scharmberg at ringside
Fightnews.com
Delaware, USA
25 July 2009

Dean “Pit Bull” White took the vacant WBF USA welterweight title with an upset eight round majority decision over “Rockin” Ryan Belasco last night in front of a packed house at Dover Downs Hotel and Casino in Dover, Delaware. In the co-feature, “Mighty” Mike Tiberi demolished Brad “Firecracker” Hill with a brutal body attack that dropped Hill for the count at 1:32 of the opening round of a scheduled six round middleweight bout. Capital City Promotions was the promoter.

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Bongani Magasela
Sowetan – News
South Africa
22 July 2009

IN 2003 when Francisco Lorenzo was at the height of his popularity, Mlungisi “Shark” Dlamini was a youngster boxing four- rounders at Plettenberg Bay in Western Cape, and Pinetown Civic Centre and Mandini in KwaZulu-Natal.

For his 16th fight, Dlamini, who is from Esikhawini, was matched against a veteran named Ivan Orlando Bustos for the WBF lightweight title.

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Rick Scharmberg
Fightnews.com
20 July 2009

Ryan Belasco (11-2-2, 3 KOs), of New Castle, Delaware will fight in his first main event on Friday, July 24, when he faces West Virginia’s Dean White (14-10-1, 7 KOs) in an eight round junior welterweight bout at the Rollins Center, inside Dover Downs Hotel and Casino in Dover, Delaware. At stake will be the WBF USA belt. Belasco is unbeaten in his last seven bouts. There will be seven additional bouts on the show, including an appearance by rising Delaware middleweight “Mighty” Mike Tiberi (9-1, 4 KOs), and a women’s bout featuring New Jersey’s Elizabeth Sherman (1-0, 1 KO) taking on Bernadette Hume, of Toronto. The promoter of “Delaware’s Young Guns” is Capital City Promotions.

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Bongani Magasela
Sowetan – Sport
South Africa
21 July 2009

BONGANI “The Cyclone” Mwelase will fight Hungarian Attila “The Viper” Koceves for the vacant WBF junior middleweight title on August 7.

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist whose candour makes him every sports writer’s favourite boxer to talk is promising to end the fight early.

“Koceves will taste a stoppage defeat. This is no prediction but a certainty,” Mwelase said.

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