19 December 1997
Sugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title. Tulane Sugarboy Malinga, South African super middleweight, won the World Boxing Council (WBC) title for the second time in his career. Malinga became the first South African to win a WBC belt by beating Nigel Benn in 1996.
References
apnewsarchive,"Malinga regained the WBC super-middleweight title", Available at: www.apnewsarchive.com, [Accessed:27 November 2013]