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▪️ Niger surprise package, miserable night for defending champions Ghana losing all four final bouts and DRC win gold medal in their debut.  Photo: Egyptian national team at the Embassy in Nairobi on their way to Cairo. Egypt won the 1968 Africa Boxing Championships by the skin of their teeth with Kenya breathing behind their Lire plus …

PHOTO: Napunyi, who was then campaigning in Tokyo, made a successful professional debut on September 1, 1981 by outpointing Japan’s Fusao Imai (left) in a six-round fight. Did you know that Ring General Napunyi Oduori is the first Kenyan professional boxer to win a title at home when the bare chested game was introduced in Lire plus …

PHOTO: Kenya’s Minister for Labour and Social Services whose portfolio included sports Ngala Mwendwa (in the foreground) and his PS Mr Ndisi admire gold and silver medals of Philip Waruinge and John Olulu on arrival back home from Accra Ghana finish second but share Nkrumah Shield with Egypt Waruinge steals limelight as Kenya and Uganda Lire plus …

PHOTO: Ghana’s first ever Olympic medallist Clement Quartey (left) in action at the 1960 Olympics in Rome where he won silver. Quartey was one of the four Ghanaian gold medallists at the inaugural Africa Boxing Championships in 1962 in Cairo, Egypt. Both countries won four gold medals in the hotly contested Cairo finals in 1962 Lire plus …

Talk about gruelling. With one big G. And not only for the two fighters, but for the referee, the judges, and the audience. Some fight fans, along with avid readers of The Guinness Book of Records, may be familiar with the names Andy Bowen and Jack Burke, as they may be familiar with the date Lire plus …