At Emperors Palace near Kempton Park in South Africa, Simphiwe Khonco retained his IBO strawweight belt for the second time with a lopsided twelve round unanimous decision over Filipino Lito Dante. The scores were 119-109 twice and 118-110.
Khonco controlled the fight from the start, outboxing the challenger from start to finish. His defense and boxing ability was too much for Dante to overcome.
Khonco raised his record to 18-5 with 7 by knockout, and Dante dropped to 13-4 with 7 knockouts.
In the co-feature, dangerous cruiserweight contender Thabiso Mchunu won a pair of regional titles with a twelve round unanimous decision over Johnny Muller. All three judges scored it 120-108.
The contest lacked the expected fireworks that many in attendance had expected, with rough tactics being used by Mchunu and one-sided action from round to round.
Mchunu improved his record to 18-4 with 12 knockouts, and Muller drops to 20-8-2 with 14 knockouts.
IN OTHER NEWS: 24-year-old Leonie Giebel won the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens Eurasia Super Featherweight title on Saturday night, June 10, when she comprehensively outboxed Serbian-born Maja Milenkovic at the Porsche Zentrum in Paderborn, Germany.
This was a rematch of a 2015 encounter, which Giebel won by fifth round stoppage, and Milenkovic showed that she had greatly improved in the interim. But Giebel, the reigning German national champion, was still too much for her, and on top from start to finish.
After eight entertaining, but somewhat one-sided rounds, judges Jens Kluge, Jens Uwe Baum and Jean-Marcel Nartz scored the fight 79-72, 80-72 and 79-72 in favour of Giebel, who looks ready for even bigger challenges.
The new WBF Eurasia Champion from Bielefeld improved her unbeaten record to 11-0-1 (1), while Karlsruhe-based Milenkovic (25), who challenged for the WBF International Lightweight title in her previous outing, drops to a misleading 5-10 (1).
The fight headlined a sold-out show promoted by Kai Gutmann.