South Africas grip on the slippery WBC belt loosened on Saturday night when Kevin Two Guns Lerena lost that boxing sanctioning bodys bridgerweight belt to Ryad The Cannon Merhy via a unanimous points decision.
This country has had only four WBC world champions Thulani Sugarboy Malinga, Dingaan The Rose of Soweto Thobela, Siyakholwa One Way Kuse and Lerena.
Malinga won the super middleweight belts twice, in 2006 and 2007. Thobela won it in 2000. Neither of them defended it successfully.
