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We spoke Boxing Hall of Fame and legendary referee Tony Weeks on his illustrious career. We also spoke to Mlandeli Tengimfene and WBO Bantamweight Champion Zolani Tete of the fight against Filipino John Riel Casimero. Moruti Mthalane was also on the show after being nominated for the SA Sports Star of the Year. TKO Boxing Show Host Kwena Moabelo previewed what is coming up on the programme on Friday.

We spoke on the SABC and SAFA’s 4-year broadcast agreement of Bafana Bafana matches and also got the latest on what is now refereed to as a looming saga between the PSL and SAFA over the U-23 Football team’s participation at the junior AFCON because the tournament doesn’t fall on FIFA dates and the clubs are not obliged to release their players. Former South African International Matthew Booth gave his thoughts on the issue as well as SAFA Acting CEO Russell Paul and SABC Journalist Velile Mnyandu.

England’s win 6-0 over Bulgaria in the Euro qualifiers was marred by scenes of racism that saw the game being stopped twice and officials threatening to abandon the match. Sports Editor of The Voice and founder of Football Black List Rodney Hinds was our guest.

We spoke Kenyan Journalist Elias Makori who is in Vienna where Eliud Kipchoge who became the first person in history to run the marathon in less than two hours. We also spoke to SABC Sport Commentator Cuan Walker.

Former Proteas batsman Alviro Peterson was our guest as we discussed the Proteas' Test Series loss to India. The Springboks have reached the quarter-finals of the the rugby world cup where they will play hosts Japan and we spoke to former Boks captain Corne Krige.

It’s Flashback Friday where we celebrate out sporting heroes from pre and post-apartheid era and we also use this slot to educate the young ones at home about the our icons of years gone by. Essop 'Smiley' Moosa is best remembered for breaking barriers after playing for Berea Park in the white league in 1972 under a false name Arthur Williams where he led them to a 3-1 win over Rangers in a semi-final cup match and also played for Sundowns.

England and New Zealand had their rugby world cup games cancelled against France and Italy respectively because of super typhoon Hagibis that is expected to hit near Tokyo at the weekend. We spoke to New Zealand Freelance Sports Reporter George Harper Jr who is in Japan. We also spoke to South African football legend Fani Madida ahead of his fund raising event on Saturday where he will be auctioning some of his jerseys with proceeds going towards upgrading sports facilities in Newcastle. We found more about the inaugural Fat Cats Athletic Club’s 10km race that will be taking place at Mall of Africa in Waterfall Park on Sunday. Fat Cats Vice-President Matshelane Mamabolo was our guest. On Tuesday we did a wrap of World Athletics Championships where South Africa failed to medal and we spoke to Stephen Mokoka who finished 5th in the 42.2km race.

Bongani Magasela spoke to us about to expect on TKO boxing show on SABC 2. Boxing fundi Ace Sidinile was our guest as we looked at the process of being nominated into the boxing hall of fame. We also got an update from Namhla Matandabuzo on the gala dinner of boxing legend Vuyani Bungu who has been nominated to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Uyanda Nogogo’s camp have threaten to take legal action if they don’t look into the complaint of their boxer who lost his fight against Junior Makondo despite beating the count after being knocked down.

We spoke to former Springbok scrumhalf Bolla Conradie after South Africa beat Canada to qualify for the quarterfinals. We will also did a wrap of the world athletics championships after Team SA returned home without a medal, Olympic Long Jump silver medallist Khotso Mokoena was our guest. We also caught up with Bafana Bafana striker Bradley Grobler ahead of the international friendly against Mali in Port Elizabeth at Nelson Mandela Bay stadium. Orlando Pirates Football Administrator Floyd Mbele was our guest we remembered the late Pirates great City Radebe.

It’s Flashback Friday where celebrate our sporting icons from years gone by and we reflected on the career of a living legend when it comes to South African Rugby in Naas Botha – he was arguably South African Rugby’s biggest star before the don of our democracy – he was voted South African Rugby Player of the Year in 1979, 1981, 1985 and 1987.

We also did a build-up to the MTN8 final between SuperSport United and Highlands Park taking place this coming Saturday at Orlando Stadium. We spoke to SuperSport United coach Kaitano Tembo as well as his counterpart at Highlands Park Owen da Gama.

We reviewed day 2 of the opening Test match between India and the Proteas at Visakhapatnam in India. We spoke to India cricket reporter Chetan Narula.

The Orient Theatre was stunned into silence as Azinga Fuzile suffered an eighth round knockout to Shavkat Rakhimov in a IBF world lightweight title elimination bout in East London on Sunday. Controversy reigned after a video footage surfed showing Rakhimov’s camp putting what looked like a banned substance called “Smelling Salts”. We spoke to Azinga’s trainer Colin Nathan and Rumble Africa Promotions CEO Nomfesane Nyathela after they lodged a complaint with the IBF. We also spoke to Boxing SA CEO Tsholo Lejaka on their protest. We also spoke to Emmanuel Mutavhatsindi on the upcoming tournament in Malamulele in Giyani.

Bafana Bafana International Percy Tau made his debut in UEFA Champions League group stage against Real Madrid and we spoke to Witbank Spurs Chairman Themba Mafu who discovered the striker.

Mbuso Sithole who is a Manager at FootGolf South Africa and Executive Director at FootGolf South Africa Norman Mphake were in studio as we got more background into FootGolf.