‘Phillip Ndou’

Rodney Berman’s Golden Gloves and Arthur Pelullo’s Banner Promotions will present a sensational fight card on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, South Africa. Featured fights will be televised live on Supersport.

The main event, scheduled for 12 rounds, will match Philip “Time Bomb” Ndou, 32-3 (31), of Johannesburg against unrelated former IBF junior welterweight champion Lovemore “Black Panther” Ndou, 46-11-1 (31), a native of South Africa now based in Sydney, Australia. More...

Hometown hero Cyril Thomas took a big risk challenging for the IBF Featherweight title but the odds proved too great for the Frenchman to overcome as Thomas was turned back by reigning world titlist Cristobal Cruz after 12 competitive rounds at Palais des Sportes in Saint-Quentin, France.

The former European titlist proved good on his intention of staying out of the trenches but was still outworked by the champion, who managed to rock Thomas on several occasions in the later rounds.

Thomas stepped it up over the last two stanzas but it was not enough to overturn the commanding lead taken by Mexico's Cruz, who swept the scorecards by marks of 116-112 and 115-113 twice.

Cruz, 38-11-1 (23), retains the IBF belt for the first time since winning it by split decision last October against Omar Salido. More...

Former two-time European Featherweight Champion Cyril Thomas gets a long awaited world title bid tonight at the Palais Des Sport in Saint-Quentin, France when he challenges Mexico's IBF titlist Cristobal Cruz.

31 year old Cruz, 37-11-1 (23), of Tijuana, has faced tough competition over his 17 year career but bounced back from two losses in 2007 to win the IBO and IBF crowns in a lively 2008 for the big-hearted veteran.

Local man Thomas, 33-2-4 (10), hasn't lost a contest in nearly three years and the 32 year old stylist comes into the clash as the reigning IBF International beltholder.

Cruz is known for throwing a tremendous number of punches and simply outworked Thomas Mashaba and Orlando Salido in big fights last year but the results were very close. More...