Southern Giant a send-off for Gilmore

THE biggest Southern Giant has been put together by well-known former boxer Anton Gilmore having an abundance of boxing talent, both amateur and professional, climbing into the ring.

The Southern Giant will take place on November 9 at Turffontein Racecourse.

The event will start at 1pm with the amateur boxing. The Southern Giant will include the first-ever All Stars African Southern Giant, which is designed for foreigners based in South Africa boxing against a select squad of South Africans.

Box Office gymnasium is planning six fights in this trial to expose talent like Paul Kamanga, who came through the same issues, but in his career managed to beat the SA champion at the Southern Giant. The highlight most probably is the talented Jezdel Kayembe, who knocked out the South African champion in one round and Joel Libote, the Ali fashioned fighter.

Also on the event card are the two prodigy boys from Tyrone In’tveld and trained by Peter Armstrong of Kempton Park. The boys are mentored by their dad to become world champions as Lamenchenko’s father did for him.

The Southern Suburbs Boxing Club has added the Fight with Insight project to the club and the new fighters they have trained this year will also have their day in the ring. The Hillbrow branch will be fighting as well, but also showing off their entrepreneurial skills such as the catering they have been taught through the year by Luke Lamprecht. The children will also show off two and three businesses they built this year under the new entrepreneur school they started.

The next event at 5.30pm will be the retired professional boxers showing they can still do it, including Gilmore, who fights a guy who reckons he beat Gilmore as a pro and they will leave it all in the ring. They are planning three other retired pro fights with some big names from yesteryear.

The evening highlight will showcase talent from various southern gyms, like Wade Groth and Julian Cook from Sugar Ray’s Gym. Willers Baloyi from Manny Fernandes will have a go and if you ever saw him fight you know he puts it all on the line when he fights. Shaun McMinnie, who was once trained by Gilmore and fought at the Giant and is now based in Durban, will make the trip to Johannesburg to be on the pro card.

Layton Gloss, who had a great fight against Ricardo Malajika, might fight against his only other loss, Arnel Lubisi. This will be a humdinger for the event as Gloss always comes to fight.

The Smith brothers (Sean and Peter) will have one of their fighters on at the event. This event is unusual as all fights were sponsored by their respective clubs and supporters.

Larry Weinstein from Phumelela offered Gilmore the venue as he wanted Gilmore’s send off to be an event to behold. The venue has become a venue for regular boxing events.

To obtain more information contact Anton Gilmore on 083 653 0190.