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Zimbabwean boxer

Thamsanqa Dube is, since 2003, the heavyweight boxing champion of Zimbabwe. In November 2003, in Bulawayo, Dube beat Arigoma Chiponda with a technical knockout taking the heavyweight national championship belt. Dube beat Chiponda three more times in the next year. Dube has only lost once in his professional career, and that was by decision in his first match against Chiponda on the day he turned professional.

On 1 January 2006 Dube knocked out a Zambian heavyweight, Joseph "Ramos" Phiri, in a 12-round contest at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College.

Notes

  1. "Zimbabwe: Chiponda Bounces Back Into Boxing Ring" The Herald 24 November 2006, Harare, Zimbabwe, AllAfrica Subscription service
  2. "Reigning Boxing Champion Dube Beats Chiponda" Africa News Service 9 August 2004;
  3. Mapuwei, Nyasha (November 2005) "Thamsanqa vows to bring ABU title" Daily Mirror 5 November 2005, Harare, Zimbabwe, from Web Archive
  4. "Zim Boxer Refuses to Fight Zambian" Africa News Service 20 October 2006;


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