Boxing SA must now pay boxers\u2019 share of their benevolent fund, after minister of sport, arts and culture Gayton McKenzie\u2019s pledge of R1m towards that fund.<\/p>\n
The call was made yesterday by promoter Promise Moyo, who is married to retired boxer Phillip \u201cTime Bomb\u201d Ndou.<\/p>\n
The benevolent fund is aimed at ensuring retired and injured boxers are supported, specifically mentioning the need for insurance to cover medical attention<\/p>\n
It is funded by a 1.5% deduction from boxers\u2019 purses.<\/p>\n
It dropped from R11.6m (2022) to R6.25m (2023), with McKenzie stating millions were \u201cgone\u201d. In April, he pledged R1m, which he said was to revive the boxers\u2019 benevolent fund.<\/p>\n
Moyo said all boxers who contributed towards the fund must be paid. \u201cIt\u2019s their money,\u201d the boss of Iron Lady Promotion said. <\/p>\n
Ndou\u2019s most notable fight was an entertaining seven-round bout against WBC<\/a> lightweight<\/a> champion Floyd \u201cPretty Boy\u201d Mayweather Jr<\/a> on November 1 2003.<\/p>\n \u201cPhillip is boxing creation,\u201d she said. \u201cThey ended his career in an unsavoury manner a day before he signed for boxing in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201dTsholofelo Lejaka, who told me that he decided not to allow Phillip to go ahead with his boxing match in Mpho Khorombi\u2019s tournament, was informed by a recommendation made by BSA provincial manager Archie Nyingwa.<\/p>\n \u201cLejaka said Archie was unhappy about Phillip\u2019s performance in his fight, which he lost on points to Ntuthuko Memela in Kibler Park.\u201d<\/p>\n Moyo promoted the IBF Africa welterweight boxing match in February 2016. <\/p>\n Moyo said: \u201cI first received a letter with Lejaka\u2019s signature demanding that Phillip must go for two scans – a brain and a CT scan – three weeks before the fight.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did as advised and we received the results, which cleared Phillip.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a report on the scar he had on his head. We then forwarded those results right away to BSA.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was no communication or acknowledgement from BSA to indicate that they received the results until a day before the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n Moyo said that communication was sent to her a day before the fight.<\/p>\n \u201cThe message was that a decision was taken that Phillip cannot go ahead with the fight due to the medical result of the scan we sent to them,\u201d said Moyo.<\/p>\n \u201cI called Lejaka and asked how he decides on a medical issue when he is not a medical doctor.<\/p>\n \u201cHe told me that the decision he took was based on the recommendation made by BSA provincial manager Archie Nyingwa.<\/p>\n \u201cHe convened a meeting between me, Phillip, himself and Peter Ngatane. That is where they told us Phillip can\u2019t box.<\/p>\n \u201cI then asked about the benevolent fund, and Lejaka said there was no money in that fund.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMcKenzie has resolved the matter; there is money now in the benevolent fund.<\/p>\n \u201cI demand that BSA pay Phillip and all other boxers who contributed towards the fund,\u201d said Moyo. \u201cIt\u2019s their money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing SA must now pay boxers\u2019 share of their benevolent fund, after minister of sport, arts and culture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,222412,85,16494],"class_list":["post-422783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-mckenzies-pledge","tag-sports","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}