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Today in SA sports history: December 13

12 December 2022 - 20:36

1980 — Peter “Terror” Mathebula becomes the first black South African boxer to win a world title when he outpoints Tae Shik Kim of Korea for the WBA flyweight crown in Los Angeles. At that stage Mathebula is the third SA fighter to win a world belt after Vic Toweel in 1950 and Arnold Taylor in 1973, but he was the first to do it overseas. ..

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