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June 4, 2017 - 0 Comments

By GODFREY DUBE – FORMER World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight champion Catherine Phiri’s return to the ring has to wait one more day after the promoters switched dates that coincided with the opening of the...

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June 2, 2017 - 0 Comments

I EXPECTED a reaction from the inactive boxing stables at whom last week’s column titled “Emulate Mitanda’’ was targeted but instead, the response came from Mitanda Boxing Stables manager Gary Sibanda. Sibanda first phoned and...

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May 28, 2017 - 0 Comments

By NDINAWE SIMPELWE – ORIENTAL Quarries Boxing Promotions have changed the opponent for former WBC Bantamweight champion Catherine Phiri ahead of the international boxing tournament in Ndola. Phiri was scheduled to fight Matshidiso Mokebisi of...

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April 30, 2017 - 0 Comments

With Samuel Lukhanda – NEWS of the Zambia Boxing Federation  (ZBF) failing to send our amateur boxers for the Zone Four tournament in Angola epitomizes what is wrong with sports administration in Zambia. The ZBF...

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February 24, 2017 - 0 Comments

ALMOST coinciding with Mexico’s celebrated annual holiday Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for fifth of May, will be an all-Mexico mega fight between Saul Canelo Alvarez and son of legend Julio Cesar Chavez senior, Chavez Jr....

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February 8, 2017 - 0 Comments

By ADRIAN MWANZA – WORLD Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight gold champion Catherine Phiri says she is humbled with the 20 points obtained following her Grade 12 final examinations. Catherine, a former pupil of Great North...

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February 4, 2017 - 0 Comments

By ADRIAN MWANZA – FORMER senior national boxing coach Wisdom Mudenda has bounced back to the top role, replacing Kennedy Kanyanta, who was dropped together with his assistant last week. Mudenda has been shuffled between...

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December 26, 2016 - 0 Comments

BY GODFREY DUBE in Chazanga  – NINE boxers were at the weekend left with bloody noses during year end Punch out Early Marriages boxing tournament held at Bwafwano Grounds. A tournament sponsored by Oriental Quarries...

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December 21, 2016 - 0 Comments

By GODFREY DUBE – ORIENTAL Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP) in conjunction with SOS village will host the Punch Out Early Marriages and Knockout violence against Children Armature boxing tournament on Saturday. OQBP promotions manager Christopher...

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October 28, 2016 - 0 Comments

THIS week I congratulate Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP) for their huge success in Harare, Zimbabwe, last week where they produced another World Boxing Council (WBC) female bronze welterweight champion Lorita Muzeya on the undercard...

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