Joshua Feldman to Face Jonas Senga Next Month

Joshua Feldman is scheduled to face Jonas Senga on February 21 at Box Camp Booysens in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Feldman's fight will be broadcast on DAZN.

The 20 year old Maccabean Spiderman is a native of Cape Town and has a record of 5-0 with 3 KOs. He posted an impressive performance in his last fight this past November. Jonas Senga signifies a slight step up for Feldman.

From Johannesburg, Senga is 2-2 with 2 KOs. He won his first two bouts in 2022 and then dropped two in 2023. He was scheduled to fight last month in the Elimin8 tournament which was cancelled.

Senga started aggressively in his most recent fight against Douniama Gislain. Senga tends to load up on big punches, which do pack power. He doesn't often jab and doesn't have the best balance. In his fight against Eric Jeancy Mayamba, who was once scheduled to be an opponent for Feldman, Senga let himself get hit too often even though he came back to win by TKO in the second round. Jonas has shown a good chin. In his stoppage loss to Gislain, he was never knocked down.

Feldman should be cautious out the gate and wary of Senga's wild counters, but smart boxing early and letting his hands go once he's in control, should be the ticket to victory.

Senga is a devout Christian, who unfortunately shared a video on Facebook last October that suggests Jews and others who doesn't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord, are doomed to spend the afterlife in Hell. Now, I don't claim to know the eternal resting place for Jonas Senga's soul, but in this six round fight, he's likely going down.

Doron Zinman to Face Nhlakanipho Phungula

Featherweight Doron Zinman is scheduled to face Nhlahanipho Phungula on February 21 at Box Camp Booysens in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Zinman is coming off a successful debut in November.

Doron is a 20 year old from Cape Town with a 1-0 record. Nicknamed the "Bauzzsaw," he's an aggressive fighter who should give the fans a good show.

Phungula will be making his pro debut. From Guateng, he received his boxing license after passing the sparring test last year.

This bout will be schedule for four rounds and streamed on DAZN.

Gary "Kid " Jacobs Elected to the IJSHOF

Gary "Kid" Jacobs of Scotland has been elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, joining ten other members from various sports in the class of 2025.

Jacobs, who fought from 1985-1997, won the British, Commonwealth, and European welterweight titles. He challenged pound-for-pound great Pernell Whitaker for the world championship in 1995. With a career record of 45-8, he was a top contender for nearly a decade. The southpaw is the latest of a long, but slightly uneven, list of boxing greats in the Hall. Hopefully, his manager Mickey Duff will be enshrined alongside Gary in Netanya, Israel someday soon.

In addition, to this latest achievement, Jacobs was elected to the Scottish Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011. he was also rated as one of the top five Jewish British boxers of all-time. For a full profile of Gary Jacobs, visit here.

Preview of Cletus Seldin vs. Issouf Kinda

Cletus Seldin is scheduled to face Issouf Kinda on March 16 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, USA in an intriguing clash of styles. This will be the second consecutive year Seldin has fought on Tom Loeffler's 360 Promotions' St. Patrick's Day weekend event.

Seldin (28-1, 23 KOs) is a puncher, and the 38 year old's overhand right is his best punch. In his last three fights- against William Silva, Patrick Okine, and Jose Angulo- Seldin has struggled at times. Silva outboxed Cletus for several rounds until the Hebrew Hammer turned the fight and completed a stunning comeback in the seventh round. Some felt Okine was ahead when Seldin starched him in the sixth. The JBB had Seldin ahead at the time of the stoppage, but there was no doubt that Okine landed some bombs. Cletus started fast against Angulo and was on the verge of stopping the tough Ecuadorian, but Angulo boxed effectively down the stretch.

This fight against Kinda (20-6), a 36 year old from Burkina Faso, is shaping up to be another challenging contest for the "Hamma." When he was first starting out, Kinda left his family and traveled to New York in the hopes of achieving his dreams of success in the ring. Initially, he worked six days a week in a restaurant and trained whenever he found the time.

Kinda, like Seldin, was formerly promoted by Star Boxing. Nicknamed the "Volcano," he started his career 16-0 before suffering an unlucky loss to Chris Howard in 2013. Kinda greedily snatched momentum of the fight when Howard's eye swelled shut from an earlier headbutt. The judges gave the truncated fight to Howard, much to the dismay of Kinda, announcer Teddy Atlas, and most observers. Issouf then lost an ugly fight to Jeremy Bryan, one in which the Burkinabé was far too passive.

Kinda is a boxer who moves well, has good hand speed, and throws fluid punches. Boxers have been known to give Seldin trouble, although he has developed a new tactic of just touching his opponents when he's being outboxed. That serves to lull the opponent into a false sense of safety before Seldin inevitably hammers them.

Kinda began boxing at the age of three, a big advantage over Seldin, who came to the sport much later. Issouf will also have a height advantage But Cletus holds a significant power surplus. Kinda only has nine knockouts. In a wild fight against Jimmy Williams in 2017, Kinda landed a flush left hook on the AARP-eligible referee Steve Smoger, who took the punch well.

But Kinda is an unassumingly strong man like his fellow countryman Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Against Javier Loya, Kinda crunched an overhand right onto Loya's chin earning a massive knockdown and leading to a stoppage soon after. Issouf doesn't have the best chin. The Volcano has been extinguished early three times, although they were against top guys: Jose Ramirez, Ismael Barroso, and Arthur Biyarslanov.

Dating back to 2016, Kinda had lost three in a row, not including the loss to Jimmy Williams which was later ruled a no contest, before he won a couple of fights in Ghana last September against lesser competition.

Seldin-Kinda is scheduled for eight rounds and will be streamed on UFC Fight Pass.