{"id":812630,"date":"2026-07-20T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812630\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:14:18","slug":"boxing-coach-ntante-has-winning-strategy-for-rula-to-win-vacant-wbf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812630\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing coach Ntante has winning strategy for Rula to win vacant WBF title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caiphus Ntante<\/a>, a well-known boxing coach, believes he has a winning strategy for female boxer Owethu Rula<\/a> ahead of her first world title bout.<\/p>\n

Rula will look to make her mark on the world stage of boxing when she competes for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) female flyweight title in August.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old who is under the Caiph Camp, will face current South African female flyweight champion Simangele Hadebe in Cape Town at the Grand West Casino on August 8.<\/p>\n

The bill is part of the Fight Like a Woman boxing event in celebration of Women\u2019s Month hosted by the Fighters Club Promotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis title means a lot to us in the metro, because Nozipho Bell<\/a> was the first female boxer from Nelson Mandela Bay and from our club to be crowned a world champion,\u201d Ntante said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, winning the WBF female flyweight title will not only bring great joy to us as Caiph Camp, but to the metro as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is very determined to win the title, and she has been very dedicated to the gym. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe is the first to arrive and the last to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t take anything away from Hadebe. She\u2019s a world-class boxer, but I believe this time is ours.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe ranks highly in the world rankings. We know she has experience, but we are ready to push her to the limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a golden plan for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rula, an IT specialist who holds the Eastern Cape female flyweight title, last fought in March 2025 when she defended her title against Zizipho Skoti.<\/p>\n

She was due to fight in August, but she sustained an ankle injury that put her out for the rest of 2025.<\/p>\n

This will be her first fight after recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working hard for the past three months preparing for this fight. Rula is prepared both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of her height, she has been working with Sanele Magwaza, Nozipho Bell, and Tito Mtongana to improve her sparring skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer opponent is slightly taller than her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look closely, those three boxers are offensive fighters. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe studied Hadebe. She is an upfront fighter who prefers to fight at close range.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, working with Magwaza, Bell, and Mtongana will be extremely beneficial to her in terms of how we intend to approach the fight,\u201d Ntante said.<\/p>\n

The Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caiphus Ntante, a well-known boxing coach, believes he has a winning strategy for female boxer Owethu Rula ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,387535,387534,387533,85,244927],"class_list":["post-812630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-caiph-camp","tag-caiphus-ntante","tag-owethu-rula","tag-sports","tag-world-boxing-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812630","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=812630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}