Sugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title

Date: 19 Dec 1997
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Sugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title. Tulane Sugarboy Malinga, South African super middleweight, won the World Boxing Council (WBC) title for the second time in his career. Malinga became the first South African to win a WBC belt by beating Nigel Benn in 1996.

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Sugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013344

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