{"id":867766,"date":"2026-08-22T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:12:10","slug":"former-boxing-champion-zolani-tete-killed-in-shooting-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867766\/","title":{"rendered":"Former boxing champion Zolani Tete killed in shooting &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former boxing champion Zolani Tete was shot and killed in South Africa, government officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He was 38.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two armed suspects wearing balaclavas opened fire on Tete as he waited in his car for the gate to open at his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. A 27-year-old woman in the car with Tete was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Tete was reportedly training for a comeback after a four-year suspension for testing positive for a banned substance following a fight in 2022. His suspension ended on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>Tete held the WBO bantamweight title from 2017-19 and the IBF junior bantamweight title from 2014-15. He also held the WBF flyweight title from 2007-08. Tete compiled a 29-4 record across 34 professional fights, with 22 KOs and one no contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787429530_411_be4452b65ace878d206f2029709048c825036e3517e6a89f4eedc3d4c530e2ba.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former boxing champion Zolani Tete was shot and killed in South Africa, government officials said Friday. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-867766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867766","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=867766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}