02-28-2005, 10:06 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: London
Posts: 6,735
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Originally Posted by David Myers
Black fighter from apartheid South Africa. Born 1952. Fought from 1968 to 1983. Record: 73-20-3 (26).
Sibaca held the South African "non-white" bantamweight title from 1969 to 1970 and the "non-white" featherweight title from 1977 to 1978 and from 1978 to 1982.
He met Eusebio Pedroza in December 1981 with the WBA featherweight title on the line, and was knocked out in the fifth.
Sibaca belongs in the game as a testament to apartheid, which--along with Communist domination of Eastern Europe--held down some excellent fighters throughout the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
I can't find a picture of Sibaca, unfortunately.
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Here's one
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