Zolani Tete
Zolani Tete 
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| Birth Name | Zolanie Tete |
| Fight name | Last Born |
| Weight class | Bantamweight |
| nationality |
 South African
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| birthday | March 8, 1988 |
| place of birth | Mdantsane |
| style | Legal display |
| size | 1.75 m |
| Range | 1.83 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 31 |
| Victories | 28 |
| Knockout victories | 21st |
| Defeats | 3 |
| draw | 0 |
| No value | 0 |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
Zolani Tete (born March 8, 1988 in Eastern Cape , South Africa ) is a South African boxer in the super fly , fly and bantamweight and world record holder for the fastest knockout victory in a world championship fight in boxing history. He is the former world champion of the IBF association in super flyweight and current world champion of the WBO in bantamweight.
His former trainer is Nick Durandt and his current trainer is Dundu Bungu . He is under contract with Frank Warren .
Professional career
In 2006 he successfully started his professional career. On July 18, 2014 he boxed against Teiru Kinoshita for the IBF world championship and won by a unanimous decision of the judges. He defended this belt in March of the following year against Paul Butler with a knockout victory in round 8 and held it until June 2, 2015.
On April 22, 2017, Tete boxed bantamweight against Arthur Villanueva for the WBO interim world championship and won by unanimous decision. Just five days later, he was awarded full WBO world championship status. On November 18 of the same year, Tete set a new record in boxing history with his first ever title defense by knocking out his compatriot Siboniso Gonya after just 11 seconds. Previously held this record by the Puerto Rican Daniel Jiménez ; on September 3, 1994, he defeated the Austrian Harald Geier in the super bantamweight division in 17 seconds.
In April 2018, he defeated Omar Andrés Narváez unanimously over twelve rounds in Belfast .
Web links
- Zolani Tete in the BoxRec database
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was the quickest world title fight in history - beating the previous record by six seconds. The record win broke the previous one set by former WBO super-bantamweight champion Daniel Jimenez who knocked out Harald Geier in 17 seconds.
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| SURNAME | Tete, Zolani |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African super flyweight boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mdantsane , Eastern Cape , South Africa |