Category: Kinshasa 2024 by John Nene

▪️ Khadija Mardi and Pita Kabeji steal the show in the exciting one-week AFBC African Men’s and Women’s Boxing Championships ▪️ Congolese Boxing Federation President General Luyoyo and team confound sceptics by staging a highly successful tournament_ _backed by the government_ Excitement, drama, tears and tension marked this year’s AFBC African Men’s and Women’s Boxing Lire plus …

Morocco retained the overall crown despite a strong challenge from DR Congo in the finals of the AFBC Men’s and Women’s African Boxing Championships on Saturday, 26 October 2024. The Moroccans clinched the tournament title for the second consecutive year, winning 10 gold, eight silver, and three bronze medals. Hosts DR Congo secured second place Lire plus …

Morocco won eight gold while DR Congo scooped four gold to dominate the first session of the Africa Championships finals. The other two gold medals in the 14-bout card went to Cameroon’s light-flyweight Martial Wouang and Congo Brazzaville’s lightweight Sandrine Bokota. The finals second session takes place on Saturday, October 26. Morocco’s gold medallists today Lire plus …

Cameroon’s national boxing coach Didier Ngatcha is over the moon following a historic achievement by his pgymy boxer Martial Wouang who won light-flyweight gold in the AFBC Africa Men’s and Women’s Championships in Kinshasa on Friday, October 25. He outpointed DR Congo’s Zola Tulembekwa by staying inside and releasing rapid combinations upstairs. “I’m very happy Lire plus …

Morocco kept alive their hopes of retaining the overall title by entering 18 boxers in the finals of the AFBC African Men’s and Women’s Boxing Championships to take place on 25 and 26 October at the Stade des Martyrs in Kinshasa. DR Congo team is breathing down the neck of the Moroccans with 14 boxers Lire plus …

Namibia’s Tryagain Ndevelo is just a heartbeat away from clinching gold in the featherweight division in the Africa Boxing Championships in Kinshasa, DR Congo. The Namibian southpaw outpointed Morocco’s bantamweight gold medalist at last year’s Africa Championships in Yaounde Imad Azoui to set up a final featherweight clash with Zambia’s African Games silver medallist Mwengo Lire plus …

IBA World Champion, Morocco’s Khadija Mardi stopped Sila Tshimwanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the first round to stomp through to the finals of the ongoing AFBC Men’s and Women’s African Boxing Championships in Kinshasa, DR Congo. A smashing right to the face staggered Tshimwanga, forcing the referee to intervene as Mardi Lire plus …

Nine Moroccans powered their way to the finals and seven DR Congo boxers also sailed to the last two with three casualties Pressure! Pressure! Pressure! Hosts DR Congo will have to stage a spirited comeback in today’s semi-finals after Morocco upstaged them in the first semi-finals on Tuesday, October 22. Of the 10 Moroccans in Lire plus …

East Africa have 13 boxers in the semis, Kenya leads with 8 in the last four. Who will blink first between DR Congo and Morocco? That’s the one million dollar question boxing analysts are asking themselves ahead of what promises to be a keenly contested competition. The stage is now set for a bruising battle Lire plus …

Boniface “The Hammer” Mogunde (pictured) put up one of his best ever performance to become the eighth Kenyan boxer to qualify for the semi-finals of the Africa Elite Boxing Championships. Fighting with his guard down at times but swift on footwork and eagle-eyed, Mogunde outpointed DR Congo’s Anderson Manzongo to move to the semis, and Lire plus …