Famous African Francois Botha

Many other people does not stop but to get excited about boxing as a sport and as a spectacle. In Germany, the attention is for such fringe sports always on whether there is currently German participants with chances to win, which was so in Formula 1, the ski jumping or boxing. Currently, the starving German boxing, but this at times and also one of Henry Maske, Axel Schulz was in a different way.

Against Axel Schulz won against that Francis Botha, nicknamed the “White Buffalo”, his world title in 1991 in Stuttgart. However, and this in turn makes it less like Botha gentleman as those mentioned above, Henry Maske, the South Africans had to cede that title later: he had been convicted of doping.

The first world championship title doping: Francois Botha

Later attempts to win a world title again suggested initially also failed, but he failed against big opponents like Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis. 2009 it was finally time: the world champion title was vacant WBF. In a duel with Ron Guerrero, he won the fight and eventually received the “World Champion”. Since there is little Botha have disturbed that the WBF one of the smaller and therefore less important is Boxverbände.

2010 he lost his title again, but still looks back on the impressive record of 58 professional fights, of which he won 48 and lost only 5. Botha is from Witbank in South Africa. By year 1968, he is probably not much longer be active as Boxsportler – but it had been assumed by previous box-Dinos too …

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