By NDINAWE SIMPELWE – EXODUS Boxing Promotions manager Anthony Mwamba described Anos Temfuma’s defeat to Namibian Wilberforce Shihepo as a perfect preparation for November’s fight against Lembani Lano of Malawi in Lusaka. Temfuma lost on...

ON May 6, this year, I wrote a piece titled “Fans’ disappointed with Multi-Choice” in which I registered the collective wrath and disappointment of a legion of boxing fans who were denied a chance to...

ON paper UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor who has declared himself the next God of boxing before entering the ring against undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr (49-0, 26 KO) tonight in their super lightweight bout at...

By GODFREY DUBE – THE two Zambian boxers at the World Boxing Championship in Hamburg got tough draws against European opponents and will need to be at their best with a dash of lucky to...

By GODFREY DUBE – GERMANY-bound boxers have promised not to disappoint the sponsors and the country at large as they represent the country in the World Boxing Championships starting on Friday. Zambia will be represented...

THERE was a time not too long ago when Adrien “The Problem” Broner was thought to be the next Floyd Mayweather Jr. and that for a reason. Broner has been a Mayweather clone in his...

BY ADRIAN MWANZA – ACTING Sports minister Vincent Mwale has commended the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) for picking Zambia as host for the 2017 year-of-Africa boxing development programme that will see close to 100...

INITIALLY, the Zambia Boxing Federation (ZBF) planned to send a contingent of 12 boxers to the recent Congo Brazzaville boxing tournament which ran from June 17-25, but managed to send half the number. The number...

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...

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...