{"id":94010,"date":"2021-08-11T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/?p=94010"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:31:28","slug":"dingaan-thobela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/dingaan-thobela\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Dingaan Thobela: Age, Career &#038; Net Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration-line: underline;\"><strong>Dingaan Thobela: <em>Biography of Dingaan Thobela, Age, Career &amp; Net Worth<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dingaan Thobela (born 24 September 1966) is a former professional boxer, a former two-time lightweight world champion, and a former super middleweight world champion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dingaan-Thobela.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"94020\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/dingaan-thobela\/dingaan-thobela-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dingaan-Thobela.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,197\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dingaan Thobela\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dingaan-Thobela.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dingaan-Thobela.jpg?fit=256%2C197&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94020\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dingaan-Thobela.jpg?resize=256%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dingaan Thobela\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Dingaan Thobela Age<\/h2>\n<p>He was born on the 24th of September 1966 in\u00a0Soweto, South Africa. As of 2020, he is 54 years old and celebrates his birthday on September 24th every year.<\/p>\n<h2>Career<\/h2>\n<p>Thobela, also known as \u201cThe Rose of Soweto,\u201d turned professional in 1986 and won the WBO Lightweight Championship in 1990 after defeating Mauricio Aceves.<\/p>\n<p>He resigned from the championship after three successful defenses and challenged WBA Lightweight Champion Tony Lopez in 1993, but lost a contentious decision. Later that year, he fought Lopez again and won the title on a decision.<\/p>\n<p>He lost the title in his first defense to Orzubek Nazarov, and he lost a rematch to Nazarov in 1994, both while struggling to make the weight. Shortly after, in a non-title fight, he stopped WBF junior welterweight champion Kenny Vice.<\/p>\n<h2>Net Worth<\/h2>\n<p>He has an estimated net worth of $500,000 which he has earned as a professional boxer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHARE THIS POST WITH OTHERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div class=\"aa-end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dingaan Thobela: Biography of Dingaan Thobela, Age, Career &amp; Net &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":94020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102721],"tags":[104133,104951,109874],"class_list":["post-94010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-age","tag-career-net-worth","tag-dingaan-thobela-biography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biography of Dingaan Thobela: Age, Career &amp; 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