/ 26 December 1999

NDOU RANKED FIFTH BY WBA

PHILLIP Ndou has moved up to the number-five spot in the WBA ratings after successfully defending his WBA Continental featherweight title for the first time.

Ndou, nicknamed “Time Bomb”, stopped Laureano Ramirez of the Dominican Republic inside three rounds of their scheduled 12-rounder at Johannesburg’s Wembley Arena last Wednesday.

Promoter Branco Milenkovic received a letter from an impressed WBA president Jose Luis Torralba, informing him of his boxer’s new rating.