American boxing trainer Kenny Adams’ death in April has been mourned worldwide, but his impact in Mdantsane will leave imprints that will remain forever for different reasons.
Adams, 84, represented a symbol of disdain in SA for engineering the loss of the township’s first world champion, Welcome Ncita, when he was knocked out by Adams’ charge Kennedy McKinney to surrender his IBF junior-featherweight crown in December 1992, a loss that shrouded the country in gloom.
