Hundreds of former boxers gather in Pretoria
A former boxing champion from Pretoria managed to organize the biggest reunion of former boxers, boxing coaches and boxing administrators in the history of this sport in South Africa last week.
Former South African lightweight boxing champion Danny Myburgh managed to make one of his life dreams come true last week when he successfully organized the biggest reunion for former boxers in the history of the sport in South Africa.
About 350 former boxers, including several world champions, South African champions and provincial champions, gathered together with other members of the boxing community in Koedoespoort in Pretoria for this remarkable function.
In the street in front of the well-known Bernie’s Joint in Koedoespoort, cars were parked for about a kilometre away when South Africa’s boxing community came together from every province in the country for this function.
Myburgh, known in his boxing days as a fighter from Vryheid in Northern Natal, lives in Pretoria these days. During his career of 32 fights between 1987 and 1994 as a professional boxer, Myburgh was not only South African lightweight champion, but he also fought against Michael Ayers from Britain for the WBC world title in 1993, a battle he unfortunately lost.
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