
On April 6, 2026, France Lassie Mabiletsa, Botswana's longest-reigning light heavyweight champion and Olympic trailblazer, is stepping away from boxing. This occurs exactly one year before the 40th anniversary of the 1987 bout between Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler, known as 'The Super Fight', which ended in controversy and Marvin Hagler's retirement. Mmegi's scribe Maswabi conducted a 45-minute interview with Mabiletsa, described as a "bout between memory and myth."
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