It was a sweet sixteenth victory for Silence Mabuza, who tamed his challenger, Briton Noel Wilders, in less than 13 minutes to retain his IBO bantamweight title at the Carousel outside Pretoria on Saturday night.
Wilders was knocked out in the 40th second of the fifth round, thus ending his hope of reclaiming the glory of the IBO belt he once treasured. More humiliating for Wilders was that it sunk in from the lowliest level of the canvas after Mabuza pummeled his body until his knees eventually turned to sap.
The unbeaten Mabuza preferred to adopt a silent but violent approach to this fight, hardly uttering a word at the weigh-in prior to his clash against the former British and European champion, Noel Wilders.
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At 24-1-1 Wilders appeared on paper to be every bit on course to reclaim the world title he was stripped of three years ago.
But the classier Mabuza wasn't fazed in the least facing a southpaw foe everyone thought would test him to the maximum. Come fight night, Mabuza hardly missed a beat in a show that made him guilty of spinning an illusion that boxing was an easy game.
Wilders' prophetic words at the weigh in must be haunting his tortured body and mind as he flies home with his tail sunk firmly between his legs.
"It will be the hunter versus the hunted," he predicted, but little did he know he would fall prey to Mabuza, who became every bit the predator.
Wilders showed grit and determination, but Mabuza more than proved he is in a class of his own by peppering Wilders with punches from the opening bell.
Wilders' lily-white body took on an ever-reddening hue as Mabuza coloured him in an artistically bizarre punch by numbers fashion.
Never once did Mabuza ease off the throttle after starting the fight at a breakneck pace. By the end of the second round Wilders returned to his corner and let off a huge sigh of relief that it was over.
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