page_title: Stoffel du Plessis
section_title: Holt vs. Du Plessis
hierarchical_section_title: Stoffel du Plessis / Professional career / Holt vs. Du Plessis
caption_attribution_description: English: Holt vs. Du Plessis - SA middleweight title fight. 12 September 1956. Durban. Souvenir Programme
context_page_description: Stoffel du Plessis born Christoffel Petrus du Plessis, in the district of Lichtenburg, was a South African amateur and professional middleweight boxer of the 1950s.
context_section_description: Du Plessis fought Mike Holt for the South African Middleweight title in the Durban City Hall on 12 September 1956.
  On fight night, Du Plessis weighed 5½ pounds less than Holt. By the second round, “Holt’s nose was a dull red blob on his face, thanks to Du Plessis’s left jabs, which found a way through Holt’s wide open stance.”  A cut appeared next to Holt's left eye in the fourth round, though Du Plessis was in a far worse state at this time, bleeding from the nose and having a cut eye himself. After a “gory fifth round”, Holt pressured Du Plessis through the next two rounds, dropping him in the sixth. By the seventh round Du Plessis's cut was so bad that he could not continue the bout.
  The pair were to fight again only 10 days later, on 22 September 1956 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. Holt dropped Du Plessis three times in the first round, winning by TKO in the second.
  Stoffel du Plessis retired from professional boxing after this fight.
caption: Front page of the souvenir programme for Stoffel du Plessis's middleweight title fight with Mike Holt.
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