Former middleweight champion Charles Misanjo and current holder Brian Mwando will renew their rivalry when they meet in a 12-round title fight at Robins Park in Blantyre Saturday.
This is their fourth meeting with Mwando winning the first fight and Misanjo the last two.
The last fight ended in controversy as Mwando’s camp disputed the result, and after a fracas, the Zimbabwean boxer was slapped with a six-month ban.
Since then, Mwando has returned strongly, winning six successive fights, including the middleweight title after beating Felix Mwamaso.
Misanjo, 26, who previously struggled to shift from super welterweight to middleweight category, claimed to have since squeezed his way into the required weight.
“I am weighing 72kgs, but the official weight will be known on Friday [today] during the official weigh-in. However, I am not fazed ahead of the fight. I will give him a proper beating. I know his weaknesses,” said the boxer who has fought 23 times, winning 15 fights and losing eight.
Misanjo is under pressure from his stable, No Pain No Gain Boxing Promotions, to win a belt after one of the boxers’ from the camp, Chikondi Makawa, lost the stable’s sole belt to Kudakwache Banda last Sunday.
Mwando challenged that he had done his homework, adding “I won’t talk much. Thoughts of losing don’t exist in my mind.”
Mwando has 15 wins and six defeats in 21 fights.
Alufandika Boxing Promotions is promoting the title fight.
On the same bill, Mwando’s wife, Agnes Mtimaukanena, is expected to take on a Tanzanian opponent in a non-title fight.
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