Landile \u201cMan Down\u201d Ngxeke is poised and ready to produce an upset by defeating favoured Jose Salas Reyes for the vacant IBF bantamweight world boxing title.<\/p>\n
Reyes, also known as \u201cChapulin\u201d, will have home-field advantage when he collides with the South African in Mexico on December 13.<\/p>\n
Rated No 3 by the IBF, which is one of the top four most respected sanctioning boxing bodies, Salas is undefeated after 16 fights.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old left-handed Mexican from Tijuana, Baja California, has knocked out 10 of his victims.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, fourth-ranked Ngxeke from Sada in the Eastern Cape has a single loss against 16 wins with eight knockouts.<\/p>\n
Ngxeke, 30, will make his first appearance outside of SA.<\/p>\n
He has won the ABU, SA, IBO Inter-Continental junior-bantamweight, WBO Global, SA, WBO Inter-Continental and IBF International bantamweight titles.<\/p>\n
The boxer\u2019s trainer\/manager, Colin \u201cNomakanjani\u201d Nathan, told Sowetan on Monday that his charge was ready to announce himself to the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreparations were wonderful; we are ready; I am confident of the big upset,\u201d said Nathan, who scored major upset wins with Hekkie Budler and Sivenathi Nontshinga in that part of the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kid\u2019s focus is on the next level.\u201d <\/p>\n
Nathan is looking to extend his unbeaten winning streak in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Budler defeated Elwin Soto<\/a> in a WBC<\/a> junior-flyweight title eliminator by a razor-thin one-point margin in 2022.<\/p>\n In the same year, Nontshinga won the IFB junior-flyweight belt after defeating Hector Flores by a split points decision.<\/p>\n Ngxeke, Nathan, assistant trainer Shannon Strydom, and cut man Bernie Pailman leave for Mexico this week.<\/p>\n Ngxeke last fought in June when he won the IBF International and the WBO Inter-Continental titles.<\/p>\n He defeated Mexican Eric Gamboa on points at East London\u2019s Orient Theatre.<\/p>\n After that fight, which was staged by promoter Ayanda Matiti, Ngxeke relocated to Johannesburg, where he joined Nathan\u2019s No Doubt Management.<\/p>\n Soon after sealing vows, Nathan announced that he received the letter of order from the IBF for Ngxeke to contest for the vacant world bantamweight championship.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank Larry Wainstein [promoter] of Boxing 5 for all his support. Mandown is ready to announce himself to the world,\u201d said Nathan.<\/p>\n Sowetan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landile \u201cMan Down\u201d Ngxeke is poised and ready to produce an upset by defeating favoured Jose Salas Reyes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[142315,703,49,48,142314,142313,142312,142311,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-320348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-bantam","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-colin-nathan","13":"tag-ibf-bantamweight-title","14":"tag-jose-salas-reyes","15":"tag-landile-ngxeke","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}