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Zolani Tete was born on 8 March, 1988 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa, is a South African boxer. Discover Zolani Tete's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 36 years old?
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36 years old |
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8 March 1988 |
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8 March |
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Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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South Africa
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He is a member of famous Boxer with the age 36 years old group.
Zolani Tete Height, Weight & Measurements
At 36 years old, Zolani Tete height is 5 ft 9 in and Weight Flyweight
Super-flyweight
Bantamweight
Super-bantamweight.
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5 ft 9 in |
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Zolani Tete Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Zolani Tete worth at the age of 36 years old? Zolani Tete’s income source is mostly from being a successful Boxer. He is from South Africa. We have estimated Zolani Tete's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Zolani Tete (born 8 March 1988) is a South African professional boxer.
Tete made his professional debut in May 2006.
He won his first 8 fights by stoppage.
In his eighth bout he won the WBF flyweight title, which he defended twice.
Tete earned a shot at a major world title for the first time, beating Richard Garcia in a title eliminator by unanimous decision (118-108, 118–108, 118–110).
Tete went on to face Moruti Mthalane for the IBF flyweight title, suffering his first loss with a round 5 technical knockout (TKO).
After the loss to Mthalane, Tete moved up to junior-bantamweight.
He received another opportunity to fight in an IBF eliminator, but lost a majority decision (112–115, 112–115, 113–113) to Juan Alberto Rosas.
After a bounce-back win, Tete fought in yet another eliminator but lost by split decision (113–115, 114–115, 115–114) to Roberto Sosa.
Tete seem to befuddle Sosa with his length early on, but as the fight went on Sosa surged and earned the nod.
Sosa received a warning due to low blows but there was no point deductions.
In November 2013, Tete would fight in a third IBF junior-bantamweight eliminator against former champion Juan Carlos Sánchez Jr. Sánchez had lost the IBF title due to coming in overweight against Sosa, thus leaving the title vacant after beating Sosa.
The winner would be the IBF's mandatory challenger to the winner of the Liborio Solís-Daiki Kameda unification bout.
Tete knocked down Sánchez in round five before being dropped himself in round six.
After being knocked down, Tete resorted to excessive holding, losing points in rounds eight and nine.
However, he was able to put Sánchez away in round ten.
Solís would beat Kameda, but he also lost his title on the scales, leaving the IBF title vacant.
He is a former two-weight world champion, having held the IBF junior-bantamweight title from 2014 to 2015 and the WBO bantamweight title from 2017 to 2019.
Tete grew up in the Mdantsane township.
He had a rough childhood.
Him and his brother, Makazole, took up boxing when Zolani was eight.
Tete would later be trained by Bungu.
He claims to have over 400 amateur fights, only three of which were losses, as amateur he met Hekkie Budler former WBA world minify and WBA and IBF World junior flyweight champion and The Ring champ theytwo times in South African national games Tete won one and lost one to Hekkie.
Tete would face Teiru Kinoshita in July 2014 for the vacant title, winning a comfortable unanimous decision (119–109, 119–109, 118–110).
After one successful defence, he chose to vacate the title rather than fight mandatory challenger McJoe Arroyo.
Tete went on to sign with British promoter Frank Warren in December 2015.
Tete made his bantamweight debut in 2016.
Tete won a wide unanimous decision (120–107, 119–108, 119–108), dropping Villanueva in round eleven.
Tete was later elevated to full champion by the WBO.
On April 21, 2018, Tete defended his WBO belt against Omar Narvaez, who was WBO #1 ranked contender at the time.
In a highly unexciting bout, Tete still manage to get a unanimous decision victory, winning 120–108 on all three scorecards.
In his next title defense, Tete faced Mikhail Aloyan, ranked #5 by the WBA and #6 by the WBO.
Tete won the fight on all three scorecards, 114–111, 114-111 and 114–110.
Tete was scheduled to face Nonito Donaire on April 27, 2019, but pulled out of the fight due to a shoulder injury.
Casimero dropped Tete twice before the referee waved the fight off in the third round and awarded Casimero the TKO win.