BOXING NEWS - In a battle of southpaws, Thabiso Mchunu gained revenge and added the African Boxing Union cruiserweight title to his South African cruiserweight crown when he completely outclassed Tommy Oosthuizen to score a unanimous 12-round points decision, in their return match, at Emperors Palace near Kempton Park on Saturday night.
Oosthuizen only shared one round on my scorecard as judge’s John Shipanuka (Zambia) and Michael Neaquay (Ghana) scored 119-109 and 119-111 and the third judge Simon Mokadi (South Africa) handed in a card of 118-111.
In terms of the Africa Boxing Union rules the scores were announced after the fourth and eighth rounds respectively, which read – fourth round 40-36 twice and 39-37 all in favour of Mchunu; and at the end of the eighth round the scores announced were 80-72, 79-73 and 77-73 in favour of Mchunu.
