Tommy Gun can rock with Jay Z

08 March 2015 - 02:53
By BONGANI MAGASELA

American hip hop artist Jay Z looks set to hand Thomas ''Tommy Gun" Oosthuizen the biggest pay cheque of his career if the South African boxer is able to take advantage of a palatable offer put before him. The super-rich rapper from Brooklyn, real name Shawn Corey Carter, has become a boxing promoter and has set his sights on getting Oosthuizen to face his boxer - World Boxing Association (WBA) super-middleweight champion Andre Ward - in a fight expected to take place in the US in May or June.

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