Moruti Mthalane admits he looks easy to beat but, as he tells Phil Rogers, that’s exactly why he isn’t
AFTER all this time the imitation gold still gleams in the searing African sun. Twenty-five years have passed since a modest prize was first placed into teenage hands. Grander accolades have certainly followed, yet the crown that takes pride of place on the mantlepiece of Moruti Mthalane’s home in KwaZulu-Natal remains his first.
“It’s my history,” the two-time flyweight sanctioning body world titlist tells
Boxing News.
“When I’m at home I take a cloth and I shine it, because that was the first thing I ever got from boxing. I was 13 years old. I was doing boxing just for fun until one day my uncle took all of the boys he was training to an amateur tournament. This is where I fell in love with boxing because afterwards we got some trophies. I was so excited, it was the first time such a thing happened to me. I couldn’t wait to go back to the gym and get ano
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