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On Saturday night at North-West University Sports Complex in Mafikeng, South Africa, Malcolm Klassen regained his IBF Super Feather title with a seventh round stoppage of top rival Cassius Baloyi.
No one could have predicted the dominant performance that Klassen, 24-4-2 (15), produced as the former titlist had Baloyi’s number the minute the bell rang to begin the first round.
Klassen simply drove through the distance that the much taller Baloyi had hoped to maintain throughout the scheduled 12 round contest and had the reigning champion in very deep trouble as early as the first frame.
Baloyi, 36-4-1 (19), couldn’t do anything to keep the irrepressible challenger off and things just went from bad to worse for the Johannesburg man as the bout wore on.
Only Baloyi’s magnificent chin allowed him to remain standing during the bout but by the seventh, the contest had become so one-sided that the contest was ended at 2:26 of the frame.
Klassen regains the title he lost to Mzonke Fana two years ago by split decision while Baloyi is stopped for the first time in his career.
On the undercard, Moruti Mthalane, 23-2 (16), retained the South African Flyweight title by KO’ing Lehlohonolo Ramagole, 6-2 (4), in the third.
