Leave boxing to boxers."īut Pailman differed: “I give thumbs up to Joyce.
They were just slugging it out and the sweet science was missing because they are not boxers. The punishment they took could cause serious injuries. Toweel said: “It does not look good when two men swing and hit each other silly. You can't allow musicians to do as they please with our sport because we cannot do the same in their industry.”
“I mean, BSA should have been a role player and that way officials would have benefited and this fight would have been handled professionally. “I welcome and appreciate what Joyce Kungwane has done and surely more and more sponsors will have an interest in this but how does it benefit boxing if the real boxing fraternity is left behind,” asked former boxer and now trainer Nkwanyana While boxing stakeholders such as trainers Bernie Pailman and Colin Nathan, and CEO of J4 Joy Promotions Squire Nododile, who gave the unofficial match the thumbs up, their colleagues Thulani “3Seconds” Nkwanyana and Alan Toweel Junior beg to differ. The exhibition fight attracted about 3,000 fans to the Sun City Superbowl, which used to be the home of super pro boxing matches back in the 80s and 90s. The latter deservedly won the five-rounder on points against fan favourite Phoolo. This is the feeling from a number of boxing personalities Sowetan spoke to after watching the much-hyped clash between ace rapper Cassper Nyovest, real name Refiloe Phoolo, and actor/muso Anga “NaakMusiq” Makunga. To this day, local boxing is still battling the shake off the effects of the KO punch some 15 years ago, when the sport used to be the second most popular to football. For too long the sport had a vicious uppercut that knocked it down into the lowest ebbs of sporting codes in SA. Celebrity boxing is the way to go to revive the fortunes of the fisticuffs sport in the country.
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