Warren hunts down Master

Boxing | South Africa

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Warren Joubert beat Master Mangalazi on points at Carnival City near Brakpan on Thursday night.
Joubert, in his first fight in eleven months, faced an opponent who had won only two of his previous ten fights.
He was made to chase the back-pedalling Mangaladzi for almost the entire fight before winning the junior welterweight eight-rounder in a box-and-dine tournament presented by Manny Fernandes of BRD Promotions.
Joubert improved his professional record to 19-3-5, including 11 knockouts. Mangaladzi now stands at 2-8-1; 1.
Welterweight Jarred Silverman outboxed the promising Stone van Aswegen over eight rounds in what was billed as a grudge match.
Other results: Junior middleweight: Stanis Kulondi beat Vusi Bilankulu on points over 4 rounds.
Middleweight: Dowayne Combrink stopped Daddy Mpinga in the first round.
Super middleweight: Walter Dlamini beat Hansen Baloyi on points over 6 rounds.
Junior heavyweight: Deon Coetzee beat Jean Lutete on points over 6 rounds.


SNIPPETS
A new book about the rivalry between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank has been released. Titled The Hate Game it was written by Ben Dirs.
Other recently published boxing books are Marvelous – The Marvin Hagler Story by Damian and Brian Hughes, and Ricky Hatton’s biography, War and Peace.
Long-time British manager and promoter Frank Maloney, 60, has retired from boxing
The Doncaster Museum in England raised about 2 500 pounds (more than R40 000) to keep an oil painting of former British heavyweight champion James William “Iron” Hague.
The portrait of Hague in a fighting pose was painted shortly after his one-round-victory over Gunner James Moir in April 1909. It has been on loan from the Hague family and will now be displayed permanently at the museum.

COMING UP
IBF cruiserweight champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez returns to action after a long injury-enforced layoff when he defends his belt against Alexander Alekseev in Bamberg, Germany, on November 22.
WBO and WBA super-bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba is scheduled to defend his titles against Joseph Agbeko in Atlantic City on December 7.
Devon Alexander, the IBF welterweight champion, faces a challenge from Shawn Porter in San Antonio November 30.
England’s Tony Bellew will challenge Adonis Stevenson for the WBC light-heavyweight belt in Quebec City, Canada, on November 30.
Scott Quigg will defend his WBA super-bantamweight belt on the undercard of the fight between Carl Froch and George Groves in Manchester in November 23. The name of his opponent has not been announced. Froch and Groves will fight for the WBA and IBF super-middleweight titles.