Halfan Hythani Hamza vs. Julius Munyelele Indongo & Tony Rashid Ngongo vs. Bongani Mahlangu RBR

Halfan Hythani Hamza vs. Julius Munyelele Indongo, 12 rounds @ super welterweight

 

Round 1

Tight guard by Hamza, walking the lanky Indongo down. BoxRec lists a 2½" height difference, looks even more. Hamza walking into the chest of Indongo, picking off his plunging combos and scoring first with quicker and more accurate straight punching bursts. Indongo knocked into the ropes by a left hand, and shells up as Hamza swarms in with right hooks. Indongo bending his long torso in half down past the waist and clinching to survive.

10-9 Hamza

 

Round 2

Indongo pecking down at his fellow southpaw with single right jabs from just below his own chin, on a slant into the sternum of Hamza, but pinched between his wrists. Hamza biding his time, not countering much yet, reading Indongo. Hamza blocks several combinations and creeps in sidelong, his body dialed 90° away. Indongo gets cocky, landing some flurries of body hooks and forcing Hamza to clinch briefly. Hamza lulls him in, backing into the ropes - and uncorks a huge left over the top that splatters Indongo. He is up soon enough, more embarrassed than hurt although his initial fall looked bad (awkward, toppled sideways and fumbled a hand out to break it).

10-8 Hamza

20-17 Hamza

 

Round 3

Indongo going for broke to make up lost ground - or maybe try and score a KO before his gas tank and/or jaw give out. Indongo jabbing the belt line and winging haymaker lefts at the head. All caught on Hamza's forearms, bunched together, folded & held vertically. Hamza is focused entirely on defense, getting outworked, Indongo spanking him with some underhanded lefts below the front elbow. Slow and sloppy arm punches on the frontfoot by Indongo, but Hamza keeps ceding ground to him.

10-9 Indongo

29-27 Hamza

 

Round 4

They step together swinging hooks and Indongo gets cuffed behind the neck with Hamza's inner arm, going to his knees. Clear swat-down but the ref incorrectly rules a KD and counts in a groaning Indongo's face. Bad call. Indongo fired up now, ducking and rising in place, jabbing into the guard and throwing wide slashing bombs at the waistband and face of Hamza. Tires out quickly. Hamza takes over with sequences of two-fiisted uppercutting, then chopping blows on the face. Indongo worn down, put down, and put away!

KO4!!

 

Well, got the job done, albeit a round behind Bud Crawford and two behind Rougarou and Yeleussinov.

 

The co-feature was earlier I guess, just saw highlights of the last couple of rounds; Wonder Boy scored a road upset KO in the twelfth. Throwing uppercuts from damn near down by his ankles, snapped Rashid's head back with them like a gunshot.

 

Huh..the channel I actually watched it live on (G Sports Media) has taken down the replay of their feed - bit Azam TV is uploading each fight on the card on their own channel... one by one... slowly.

All but the co-main events are up now.

 

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Tony Rashid Ngongo vs. Bongani Mahlangu:

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He always had that reedy physique, and probably belonged in the 147-154 range this whole time. Many supposed kayo artists in fact are just weight bullies.

Here, seems to have been pretty clear-eyed and lucid afterward - if delusional as hell:

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Claims that

1. it was a bad stoppage
2. he isn't sure a single punch connected on him
3. it was part of his game plan to rope-a-dope...
4. he dominated a one-sided fight.