Boxing: Silence is golden, beats Wilders

It was a sweet sixteenth victory for Silence Mabuza (pic by author), 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.