Big boxing demand

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Wednesday May 6, 2009

Strong demand for tickets means that bookings for the boxing extravaganza at Emperors Palace on July 11, will open early.

Golden Gloves promoter Rodney Berman said this yesterday of the bill that features at least three top-notch match-ups.

Phillip Ndou takes on Lovemore Ndou in an IBO world junior welterweight eliminator, Jared Lovett fights Tommy Oosthuizen for the vacant IBO world ‘youth’ light-heavyweight title and Simpiwe Vetyeka clashes with Eric Barcelon for the vacant IBO world bantamweight title.

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Boxing

Olympic sport since 1904

Only had 1 fighter (Jackson Chauke) at Beijing 2008, but is the most successful code pre-1992, with 19 medals

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