{"id":993,"date":"2021-09-21T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=993"},"modified":"2021-09-21T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:01:31","slug":"wbf-intercontinental-title-fight-in-south-africa-october-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"WBF Intercontinental Title Fight In South Africa October 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two former World Boxing Federation&nbsp;(WBF)&nbsp;Champions will get another chance to hold a WBF title, when they clash for the vacant Intercontinental Super Bantamweight crown on October 10 in Pietermarizburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former WBF All Africa ruler Thato Bonokoane,&nbsp;AKA &#8220;Captain Charisma&#8221;,&nbsp;squares off with compatriot, and former International titlist, Tholumusa Ngema in the main event of a show promoted by Nomvelo Boxing Promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pro since 2013, Bonokoane, 10-4-3 (7), became a WBF champion in 2017, and made one successful defense of the title the following year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ngema, 6-1-3 (1), won his WBF title on away soil in May of 2019 when he defeated local hero Tshepang Babui by close but unanimous decision in Botswana,&nbsp;but never got a chance to defend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For both men it is a welcomed chance to get their careers back on track, but only one of them can emerge victorious and both have proclaimed they will leave everything in the ring to win a second WBF belt on October 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldboxingfederation.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.worldboxingfederation.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former World Boxing Federation&nbsp;(WBF)&nbsp;Champions will get another chance to hold a WBF title, when they clash for the vacant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=993\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WBF Intercontinental Title Fight In South Africa October 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[248,249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}