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Fail
Oh dear Oh dear!

 

WBF title maybe...........

 

Oh and just found this from a SA news site so the WBF title at least might be a reasonable target for him! Holyfield rematch would be great! He was beating Holyfield on two cards before the match finished. But he really needs to be in the shape of his life!!! here is the article-

Francois ‘The White Buffalo’ Botha is set for a collision course with four-time heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield after he beat young pretender Flo Simba in a non-title fight at Emperors Palace on Sunday morning.

The 42-year-old Botha floored Simba in the sixth round and in the process reignited his flailing boxing career.

This fight also confirmed that the wily veteran still had a lot of big fights in him after critics labelled him a has-been.

Botha said offers had already streamed in for more international bouts.

“I am busy with negotiations with the WBF for a rematch with Evander Holyfield somewhere in Africa, a fight in Brazil, the Bahamas and Japan,” he said after the bout.

Botha lost to Holyfield just over a year ago in the eighth round in a fringe WBF fight.

In Sunday’s clash it was his 56 match experience in the ring that outwitted the 21-year-old Simba.

The first three rounds of the match were evenly contested but as it drew to the end Botha seemed to run out of steam.

Botha, however, said he still had a lot of gas in his tank.

“What people didn’t know was that as my fights progress I get better,” he said.

“I told my trainer that as soon as I could read Simba and see where he was making his mistakes I would take him down.”

Botha kept on looking for the one heavy bomb that would send his opponent to the floor.

By the fifth round neither fighter showed any composure as they exchanged heavy blows at will.

It was only in the sixth round that Botha got a breakthrough and his shots connected where it mattered.

Late in the sixth round his storming blows sent Simba into the ropes and forced referee Thabo Spampool to stop the fight.

In victory, Botha 57-6-3 scored his 29th knockout while Simba suffered the first loss of his professional career.

Botha said Simba’s camp underestimated him and tried to undermine him by broadcasting his loss to Lennox Lewis on the big screens at centre court.

“The Lewis fight was one of my worst,” he insisted.

“Against Mike Tyson I had over 200 rounds behind my name while I didn’t even have 20 before the Lewis bout.

“The difference between those two matches was massive and by showing the Lewis fight they tried to unsettle me.”

He said Simba had not exchanged blows with proper opposition before this fight.

“Any boxer can look like a million dollars against a boxing bag but it is different when you put someone in front of him,” he said.

“I believe the boxers Simba fought against before this fight were boxing bags.”

Botha, however, conceded that the heavyweight prospect was a good fighter with a good left and right hook.

“I knew he wouldn’t be able to hook me with the left and kept on moving towards his right hand side.”

“His mistake was to move into me as I replied with right hand blows.”

The White Buffalo said he had given Simba advice and encouragement after the fight.

“I told him to believe that he is the best in the world and to use this fight as part of a learning curve,” he said.

“I see a world champion in him and he needs to believe in himself and keep on training hard.”

Simba's manager, Brian Mitchell, said as much as the loss was a setback to the boxer, it wasn’t the end of the world.

“Botha’s experience showed against Simba’s inexperience but he looked the part for five rounds,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell said he felt the referee may have stopped the fight prematurely but they would take the loss on the chin.

Simba is set to be back in the ring in an international fight at Emperors Palace on September 4.

His opponent is yet to be confirmed. – Sapa

 

I found this article and thought i should put it on the Buffalo's train. The chap makes a good points taken from 8cn website...

Forget about age, Evander Holyfield is still the “Real Deal”
June 15th, 2011
Darren Barcomb


I am very tired of Evander Holyfield’s critics continuing to demand his retirement. They point out the fact that “The Real Deal” turns 49 in October and cite worries about his health. After much thought though, my take is that Holyfield is still successfully fighting at a high level of competition and he, and he alone, knows his health status. In short, Holyfield should quit when he decides to, and not a second before.

If you look at Holyfield, he continues to be in great physical shape, perhaps better than the average 30 year old professional fighter. He is the current WBF heavyweight champion, and although that doesn’t carry the weight of the WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO titles, it is indeed a championship belt.

Holyfield holds a career record of 44-10-2, with 29 KO’s. He is a former 4-time heavyweight champion and is in the running for a title shot with either Vitali or Wladimir Klitschko somewhere soon down the line. If you take away the January 2011 no-contest against Sherman Williams, Holyfield has won his last two fights by TKO. His opponents were big names as well; Brian Nelsen and Francois Botha. Holyfield’s last loss was a controversial majority decision to the giant Nikolai Valeuv back in December of 2009. I’ve said it many times, Holyfield won that fight, and the decision was one of the biggest injustices of the year. In his next title defense, Valeuv dropped the WBA heavyweight belt to current champion David Haye. In reality, that belt belonged to Holyfield. Now, Haye is scheduled to face Wladimir Klitschko in a unification matchup, and Holyfield sits and watches from the outside, as his critics continue to grow in numbers.

The argument is all about age, age, and age. Currently Holyfield is negotiating a rematch with Botha for this fall in South Africa. Yes that is the same 42 year old White Buffalo that critics have been calling to retire as well. Botha silenced those critics last week though with a stunning 6th round TKO over undefeated 21 year old Flo Simba. So much for the age argument…..

It is my opinion that fighters like Evander Holyfield and Francois Botha should be licensed to box and can continue to do so until they begin to get lit up, or decide on their own to hang up the gloves. Bernard Hopkins just became the light heavyweight champion of the world at 46 years old. If all goes well, I expect Holyfield, Botha, and Hopkins to continue knocking out their younger opponents for years to come.

 

The only poor quality snippet i can find from the Botha v Simba fight is this. They never show international fights in the uk. Still im sure someone will put the full fight on in time. But for now enjoy the Botha winning in here by TKO.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp8ZkMctqPI[/ame]

the Buffalo is roaming again!

 

Quality dude! :good

 

Botha Vs Holyfield looks to be gearing up for early November 1st of the 4th have been dates thrown around. At the same venue Botha TKO'ed Simba, Emperors Palace SA. I think it will be announced soon.

 

Latest info i found on the Botha V Holyfield rematch. Looks to being promotedby Frans Botha himself!

Buffalo to fight Holyfield
2011-07-16 13:41

Johannesburg - South African boxer Francois Botha says he has agreed to face fellow veteran Evander Holyfield for the WBF heavyweight title.

Botha said on Saturday he would promote the fight which would be held at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on October 8.

"We have both agreed to fight later this year," Botha said.

"I'm promoting the fight myself using my company White Buffalo Promotions.

"I'm just tying up a few loose ends before making an official announcement."

It would be the first boxing match to be held at the stadium which was built to accommodate FIFA World Cup matches last year.

Botha, 42, won his last fight against heavyweight prospect Flo Simba at Emperors Palace last month.

In his previous fight, more than a year earlier, the former IBF champion had lost to Holyfield in the eighth round in a clash for the WBF title in Las Vegas.

Holyfield, 48, defeated Brian Nielsen of Denmark in his last fight in Copenhagen in May.

The American, a former Olympic medallist, is a multiple world champion and the only fighter to have twice beaten heavyweight legend Mike Tyson.

 

LOL nice, i didnt even notice that one!:yep Botha seriously needs to trim alot of the weight if he is going to beat Holyfield. He lost mainly last time due to lack of stamina. Lose the weight and he might at least keep going to the end.