The Musangwe organisers in the Vhumbedzi areas have arranged a Musangwe boxing tournament in honour one of the best boxers ever produced in South Africa to date - Phillip "The Time Bomb" Ndou. The tournament will be held at Tshifudi on Saturday, 20 May.
One of the organisers of the tournament, Mr Mafhungo Mphathele, who is also a bare-knuckle fighter of note, said they were proud of the fact that, before Ndou had become a professional boxer, he had been a bare-knuckle fighter. "We will also be honouring him for being the only African boxer to have fought the American boxing icon Floyd Mayweather," he said.
Ndou, who grew up in Makwarela township, made international headlines in boxing when he represented South Africa at the 1996 Olympics Games in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Immediately after the Olympics, he was snatched up by the late training guru, Nick Durant. He won the South African Featherweight Championship when he stopped Jackie Gunguluza in the third round on 21 March 1999.
In a career spanning 18 years and five months, Ndou fought 42 times, with 37 wins and five losses. His boxing record stood at 37-5 (34 KO wins, 3 KO losses).
Mphathele is calling on all the bare-knuckle fighters and fans to attend the tournament on Saturday. It starts at 08:00.