Baloyi-St. Clair II will be IBF junior lightweight eliminator

11/10/2007

Baloyi-St. Clair II will be IBF junior lightweight eliminator

Press Release: On Monday, November 12, 2007, at Emperors Palace Casino in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, Banner Promotions and Golden Gloves Promotions will present a fight between Cassius  Baloyi (33-3-1 with 18 KOs) and Gairy St. Clair (38-4-2 with 17 KOs) in an elimination bout to determine the IBF mandatory challenger to Mzonke Fana in the junior lightweight division. This fight is the rematch of their fight in July, 2006, in which Baloyi was making his first defense of the IBF featherweight title he won two months earlier. St. Clair won by unanimous decision to claim the title. Baloyi, who will be fighting in his hometown, has come back with a TKO win and a technical draw in his two fights since then.  St. Clair, a native of Guyana based in Australia, lost the IBF featherweight title in his first title defense – and most recent fight - in November, 2006, by split decision to Malcolm Klassen.  In the co-featured bout scheduled for 12 rounds, Thomas Mashaba (19-2-4 with 11 KOs) will defend his IBO featherweight belt against former IBF featherweight titlist Eric Aiken (16-5-1 with 12 KOs).