Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:19:37 +0000 By Bennie Mundando THE World Boxing Council (WBC) has honoured Zambia’s female boxing icon Catherine Phiri for being the first female boxer from Africa to win the WBC bantam weight title by dethroning Yazmin Rivas on 30th January, 2016 in Mexico. Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotion operations manager Christopher Malunga made this revelation from New York yesterday after the close of the WBC 54th convention. Malunga said that WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman had shown a lot of interest in African boxing and that there was need for promoters to live up to the expectation of the global body. Malunga challenged African promoters to learn from each other if they were to make an impact in the sport. He said they could that by buying into the ideas of others and assimilating them into their own programmes if they were to produce quality boxers capable of putting the continent on […]
