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By Gilbert  Munetsi The new baby on the domestic boxing promotion scene  – Otto Boxing Club – yesterday held a pre-weighin press conference at  Body Active Gym in Borrowdale ahead of the “Rise of Champions” showdown  at the same venue today. Evans “Vanso” Husavihwevhu(L) and Collen Zidumbu (R) Pursuant to …

By Gilbert Munetsi Otto Boxing Club has partnered with ZLG to host their debut professional tournament at Borrowdale Race-course Gym this Sunday. Doors open at 10am and strict Covid-19 measures will be enforced. Dubbed “The Rise of Champions,” the event has 10 bouts on a rich bill that has a …

Hundreds of youths drawn from around the Mukarakate area of Mashonaland East province were made recipients of a donation of uniforms and  balls by a group of community leaders last Sunday.   Speaking on the sidelines of the sports tournament that punctuated the kit handover  ceremony, one of the donors, Cosmas …

Zifa have made a sensational U-turn and resolved to send the Under-17 boys and girls to the COSAFA Championships this year after relentless pressure from the media.  This year’s regional tournament will run as the AU Region 5 Games, which will be held in Lesotho, in December.  The developments mean …

Zifa Manicaland will conduct an induction workshop for Checheche based new clubs who will form the core of the Checheche Division 2 League, provincial administrator Kundai Makwarise has confirmed. The workshop has been scheduled for October 29 at Checheche Primary School.Clubs in Checheche mooted the idea of a new league …

Zimbabwe is allowing a limited number of vaccinated fans to watch football and cricket in a major relaxation of Covid-19 regulations in place since March last year. The Sports and Recreation Commission said 2,000 fans would be allowed to watch football matches, but tickets would have to be bought in …

Zifa could be blindly flying into another constitutional storm which has the potential of pushing out scores of those in charge of domestic football, ahead of the elections to choose their leadership, next year. There are signs the Ghost of 2018, which led to the intervention by FIFA, amid a …

By Gilbert Munetsi Going into last night’s fight against Jeremiah “Low Key” Nakathila of Namibia, the writing was already on the wall for Zimbabwe’s featherweight pugilist Ndodana Ncube who threw in the towel in the second round to save himself from further anguish. Ncube, who came into the contest at …

By Gilbert Munetsi National heavyweight boxing champion Vincent Muziri yesterday left for Dar es Salaam where he will fight Congo Brazaville’s Arda Ndembo for the African Boxing Union (ABU) Southern region title. Their main drawcard bout, dubbed “Rising Stars” and promoted by Global Boxing Stars, will take place at the …

There was a beauty to the brutality, a swagger to the savagery and, on this autumn Sunday night in Edinburgh, Milton Shumba transformed himself into the King of Scotland. Just a month short of his 21st birthday, Shumba came of age with a devastating display of power hitting, which at …