Malawian boxer Elias Bonzo stands two victories away from ending the country’s 40-year wait for a Commonwealth Games medal, after booking his place in the quarter-finals in Glasgow. Bonzo advanced to the last eight with a comprehensive 5-0 victory over Gibraltar’s Gracia Ewan, a display that showcased both his composure and his growing reputation as […]
The newly crowned Africa’s lightweight World Boxing Federation (WBF) champion, Hannock Phiri, has said he would want to have an audience with President Lazarus Chakwera at State House just as was the case with the Malawi National Football Team when it qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations. he 22-year-old, popularly known as the ‘Hardknocker’, […]
Malawian boxer, Hannock ‘Hardknocker’ Phiri, is World Boxing Federation (WBF) All Africa lightweight champion after flooring a Tanzanian boxer Jonas Segu Kasengwe on Friday night in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It was not an easy fight. The Tanzanian boxer Kasegwe, was so resilient in the ring until the 9th round when Phiri managed to send […]
Malawi boxer Simeon Tchetha has been handed a six months ban by the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board. Tchetha allegedly brought the game of boxing into disrepute when he accepted to be involved in an international bout in Namibia when he was not fit for the bout. According to the board, there was no match […]
Malawian female professional boxer, Anisha Bashir, will defend her African Boxing Union (ABU) belt in Tanzania next month (April). Bashir will face DR Congo’s Theresa Naomi Yemba in a ring in Tanzania and the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board has given her a go ahead. She has started preparing for the bout. President of the […]
The Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board wants international boxer, Isaac ‘Golden boy’ Chilemba, to have a fight in his native home Malawi before he retires. Chilemba has a number of bouts before hanging up his gloves and he has been wishing to have one of his fights in Malawi but the past government kept giving […]
The Malawi Boxing Association (MABA) executive will meet this Saturday to discuss important issues including the vacant position of General Secretary. The position of General Secretary fell vacant when Elia Kamphinda Banda stepped down some time back. The association says the meeting was supposed to take place last Saturday but it did not have enough […]
Boxing lovers in the country especially the central region will witness a return of boxing bouts on 1st November at M1 Centre Point in Lilongwe; seven months from when sporting activities were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The non-title bout on this day will involve challenger Alexander “The Cage” Likande and Salim “The Destroyer” […]
Innobuild Private Company Limited on Friday presented prizes to boxers who demonstrated activeness on their own despite the COVID-19 pandemic in an Online Boxing Tournament organised the Malawi Boxing Association (MABA). The tournament challenged boxers to display their continued activeness in the boxing sport by sending video clips showcasing their boxing skills and a group […]
Government has pledged to purchase boxing rings in four months’ time following a meeting with the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board. For a number of years, the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board has been lamenting lack of boxing rings. The board has been advocating for a standard ring for each of the cities in the […]
Malawi’s bantamweight boxer, Yamikani Mkandawire, on Friday night lost his title bout under the African Boxing Union (ABU). Mkandawire was facing Tanzania’s Tony Rashid in Dares Salaam and could not go beyond the second round of the ten round title bout. Before the fight,Rashid was ranked 51 in the world while Mkandawire was on number […]
Malawian bantamweight boxer, Yamikani Mkandawire, is in Tanzania to fight Tony Rashid in Dares Salaam in a title bout under the African Boxing Union (ABU). Rashid is on number 51 in the world while Mkandawire is ranked 561 in the world and the bantamweight category comprises boxers whose weight is not more than 55 Kilogrammes. […]
Blantyre-based walter weight boxer Israel ‘Money machine’ Kam’mwamba has been freed by the Magistrate Court in Blantyre after spending a week in police custody for beating people at Chilomoni Township. Kam’mwamba escaped prison sentence when he was fined K40 000.00 and president for the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board, Lonzo Zimba, came to his rescue […]
Boxers in the country have threatened not to return to the ring once sporting activities which were suspended due to novel Covid-19 pandemic resumes on the country. They have further warned that they will hold peaceful march protests as a way of forcing the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Bord (MPBCB) to purchase a new boxing […]
Malawi’s top female boxer Anisha Bashir, the first to win the Commonwealth lightweight boxing that took place in 2018, has been nominated in two of this year’s Regional Annual Sports Awards (RASA) — the Sportswoman as well as Sportsperson of the Year awards alongside favourites, athletes Caster Simenya of South Africa, Lerato Sechele Lesotho and Zimbabwean […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) boxing pugilist Wilson ‘Shasha’ Masamba failed to clinch the African Super Featherweight title belt after being knocked down by South Africa’s Lunga Stimela in a highly contested bout which took place on Friday 29th March 2019 at Wynberg Military Side in Cape Town, South Africa. Masamba who had conducted an intensive […]
The Malawi Defense Force based boxer, Crispin ‘Dungulinya’ Moliati will on March 31, 2019 exchange punches with Blantyre based boxer, Israel ‘Money Machine’ Kam’mwamba in a 12 round featherweight title bout at M1 Centre Point in Lilongwe. Moliati who is the current champion in the featherweight category has kept the belt for almost two years […]
Days are drawing closer to a thrilling lightweight bout between challenger Israel Kammwamba and Chrispin “Dungulinya” Moliati on March 31, 2019 at M1 Centre Point in Lilongwe. Moliati, who is a soldier with the Malawi Defence Force in Lilongwe, has said he is ready to defend his belt and will teach the challenger painful lessons […]