Once told he wouldn’t survive, South African boxer Jarred Silverman is now just days away from fighting for the prestigious ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the ...

Former South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died at age 57 after a battle with an undisclosed illness. Thobela was found dead in his flat ...

South African junior flyweight Samora Msophi who was stopped in the fourth round of a title fight against champion Mfundo Gwayana at the Orient Theater has died in an East London hospital in South ...

South Africa's Malajika's showed boxing brilliance against Kevin Luis Munoz from Argentina when the South African triumphed in the IBO junior bantamweight at the Emperors Palace near Kempton Park in ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African boxer Mzwanele Kompolo has died after a first round knockout in a fight on Tuesday, the country's sports ministry has said. Kompolo, 22, was floored in the opening ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The rise and fall of flamboyant, ferocious Ezekiel Dlamini, a black South African boxer known as "King Kong" who was jailed for murder, inspired a 1959 musical whose black cast ...

JOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO ...