Retired heavyweight Frans Botha faced the best of the best in his pro career - including Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Michael Moorer, Wladimir Klitschko and several others. He actually captured the IBF heavyweight title in 1995, but t...
Latvia-licensed British heavyweight veteran Danny Williams (45-21) has denied that he accepted a fight with Francois Botha (48-11) on May 1 in Dubai. He says the fight was offered to him by the event promoter but he rejected the proposal - and indica...
Two veteran heavyweights will headline the second installment of Thursday Night Fights in the United Arab Emirates when Danny Williams and Francois Botha meet on May 1st. It is a matchup which was supposed to take place in Egypt six years ago only fo...
Former amateur standout Khavazhy Khatsygov (10-6, 6 KOs), a two-time former Olympian for Belarus with 2004 Athens win over Juan Manuel Lopez, started fast and dropped Pole Krzysztof Cieslak (22-5, 6 KOs) in the first (which wasn't ruled as a knockdow...
Botha: "The White Buffalo is coming to beautiful Poland and will roam the prairie again!" Francois Botha (48-10-3, 29 KOs) may be 45 years old but there is no way of stopping the "White Buffalo" from roaming the prairie. On March 15th the multiple...
Cape Town - South Africa's former heavyweight boxing champion Francois Botha is not considering retirement just yet. Botha, 44, looked set to call time on his career after he was badly beaten by New Zealand heavyweight prodigy Joseph Parker last m...
Unbeaten boxing novice Joseph Parker picked up the biggest win of his young career, knocking out Frans Botha in two rounds Thursday evening in Auckland, New Zealand. A flurry of punches had Botha pinned along the ropes before being rescued by the...
Fresh from his victory over Brice Ritani-Coe in LA, New Zealand boxing sensation Joseph Parker is preparing to go into battle against South African Francois “The White Buffalo” Botha. They will square off in a scheduled 8 x 3 minute round boxing f...
A celebrity cast has been assembled for the six fight undercard of Joseph Parker's scrap with Francois Botha at Auckland's Trust Stadium next month. Botha's son, Marcel, will make his professional boxing debut against Jeremy Sebastian, the brother...
Francois Botha says he will take some frustration out on young Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker in the first fight since his loss to Sonny Bill Williams. South African boxer Francois Botha says the best way to remove the bitter memory of his loss to...
The next opponent for Auckland heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker (4-0, 4KOs) will be a very familiar face. Parker's set to take on South African Francois Botha (48-9-3, 29KOs) on June 13 over eight rounds. Botha, 44-years-old, recently fought Sonny Bil...
Last week I had the chance to speak with heavyweight Francios Botha regarding the controversy and aftermath of his fight with Sonny Bill Williams. The controversy started when the fight was mysteriously changed from a twelve round to a ten round fig...