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Thamsanqa Dube

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Thamsanqa Dube is, since 2003, the heavyweight boxing champion of Zimbabwe. In November 2003, in Bulawayo, Dube beat Arigoma Chiponda with a technical knockout taking the heavyweight national championship belt.[1] Dube beat Chiponda three more times in the next year.[2] Dube has only lost once in his professional career, and that was by decision in his first match against Chiponda on the day he turned professional.[3]

On 1 January 2006 Dube knocked out a Zambian heavyweight, Joseph "Ramos" Phiri, in a 12-round contest at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College.[4]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Zimbabwe: Chiponda Bounces Back Into Boxing Ring" The Herald 24 November 2006, Harare, Zimbabwe, AllAfrica Subscription service
  2. ^ "Reigning Boxing Champion Dube Beats Chiponda" Africa News Service 9 August 2004;
  3. ^ Mapuwei, Nyasha (November 2005) "Thamsanqa vows to bring ABU title" Daily Mirror 5 November 2005, Harare, Zimbabwe, from Web Archive
  4. ^ "Zim Boxer Refuses to Fight Zambian" Africa News Service 20 October 2006;