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World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens World Super Welterweight
Champion Noni Tenge consolidated
her position as one of her
divisions absolute top names on
Friday night, March 18, when she
retained her title against
Szilvia Szabados at the Durban
International Convention Centre
in South Africa.
The game and strong Szabados
kept coming forward in an
attempt to bring the champion
out of her stride, but Tenge
used her superior skills to
out-maneuver and out-box the
Hungarian. While the home-girl
won most of the rounds, it was
never-the-less and exciting
fight as Szabados continued to
try her best.
At the end of ten fast-paced
rounds it was clear that Tenge,
living up to her nickname of
“She Bee Stinging”, would keep
her world title, and all three
female judges, Sylvia Kokaila,
Boitumelo Madiba and Phumeza
Zanikile, scored it 99-91 in her
favor. Referee in charge was
Siya Vabaza.
This was the first title-defense
for Tenge, who won the WBF Super
Welterweight crown last December
in an all-South African
encounter with Julie Tshabalala.
Also a former WBF, IBF and WBA
world titlist at Welterweight,
she improved her professional
record to 16-1-1 (10).
Szabados, now 11-6 (4), came up
short in her third crack at
world honors, having lost
previous attempts to win WBF and
WBC titles at Super
Middleweight. Now fighting at a
more suitable weight, she proved
that she belongs at world-level
and at only twenty-five years of
age she has time to come again.
Billed as “Queens of War”, the
Tenge vs. Szabados WBF world
title fight was promoted by
Mileham & Malinga.
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