{"id":58733,"date":"2014-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/58733\/the-malice-at-the-palace-experience\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:55:16","slug":"the-malice-at-the-palace-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/05\/01\/the-malice-at-the-palace-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Malice at the Palace experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Die hard boxing fans witnessed hard-hitting boxing action at Emperors Palace’s Centre Court in the Convention Centre on April 23.<\/p>\n

Emperors Palace, in association with Golden Gloves and Bulldog Projects, presented Malice at the Palace boxing events.<\/p>

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With six exciting bouts the audience were glued to their seats.<\/p>\n

The junior welterweight six round bout saw Primrose’s Grant Fourie take on Luyanda Jako.<\/p>

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Both fighters seemed to analyse each other in the first round but Fourie delivered more punches while Jako blocked them and continued to analyse Fourie.<\/p>\n

Not much action was witnessed in the first round.<\/p>\n

In the second round it was evident that these boxers are skilled as they continued to analyse each other but began to tease and serve more firm, accurate punches.<\/p>\n

Before we knew it, Fourie thumped Jako with a good jab that got him to the ground but it didn’t do much damage as soon he managed to get up.<\/p>\n

Fourie was motivated by the knock to the ground and the audience cheering him on, which opened room for more action as he went to his opponent in full force.<\/p>\n

In the third and fourth Fourie came on stronger, landing stronger upper cuts which weakened, tired and ultimately knocked Mabombo down on the ground.<\/p>\n

Fourie won the bout in a Technical Knockout (TKO) two minutes and 14 seconds into the fourth round.<\/p>\n

An act of good sportsmanship followed when Fourie went over to Jako’s corner to make sure that he was okay, and a shake of hands touched the audience who clapped for their mature behaviour.<\/p>\n

The super middleweight bout was contested by Vhonani Netshidamboni and Page Tshesane.<\/p>\n

Both fighters had energy throughout the first round, striking firm punches to each other.<\/p>\n

In the second round they seemingly have discovered each other’s weak points but kept going strong.<\/p>\n

Tshesane started to feel the stronger and more aggressive punches from Netshidamboni in the third round.<\/p>\n

Page landed weaker punches which might have been linked to the cut on his head as the round was paused for the officials to observe the seriousness of the cut.<\/p>\n

All seemed well, as he was released to carry on with the fight.<\/p>\n

Netshidamboni began to corner Tshesane, guessing that he saw the cut as a weakness.<\/p>\n

To escape attack Tshesane had to give out a few retaliatory punches which saw his opponent back away.<\/p>\n

Netshidamboni was still fired up in the fourth round and Tshesane came back to this much stronger, as he began to attack more and very cleverly.<\/p>\n

In the fifth round, Tshesane fell, the audience was unsure if it was due to a missed step, slippery floor or the result of a good jab from Netshidamboni.<\/p>\n

In the sixth and final round both the boxers were throwing punches everywhere, they were tired but neither wanted to give in.<\/p>\n

Boksburg’s Tshehane, bled more than his opponent, but kept going strong.<\/p>\n

Other results:<\/p>\n

Boitshepo Mandawe won the junior welterweight bout against Herbert Nkabiti with one minute and five seconds into the fifth round.<\/p>\n

Chris Mabombo lost the heavyweight bout to Martin Makabu with one minute and four seconds into the second round.<\/p>\n

The ten round junior welterweight bout was contested by Paul Kamanga and Adam de Moor. Kamanga won the bout by a TKO two minutes and 36 seconds into the seventh round.<\/p>\n