It seems the gulf between the Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board (MPBCB) and its cousin, the Malawi Boxing Association (Maba) continues widening.
Apparently, there are signs of greed between the two bodies to the extent that their constituents have been left confused.
I fail to understand why Maba has decided to embark on the drive to promote professional boxing when its priority is to develop amateur boxers.
I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that this idea was hatched out of greed not to promote the sport.
If defies logic that Maba, which was struggling to develop amateur boxing, can venture into a more complicated and expensive business of promoting professional boxing.
Malawi is a small country with limited boxers and it is absurd that the two organisations should be duplicating roles.
The problem is that MPBCB is full of hot headed individuals who think they are bigger than the sport.
While Maba has some elements who think they know the sport better, in reality they are as hopeless as their colleagues.
All this jazz that Maba is empowered by the International Amateur Boxing Association (Aiba) to sanction professional boxing is utter rubbish and should not be condoned.
That arrangement cannot apply in a Malawian set-up where there is insufficient resources to run the sport.
It is sad that the Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS), which is an umbrella organisation of all sports associations, seems to be dragging its feet to resolve the wrangle or it is deliberately doing that to favour one of the warring factions.
All these fights cannot be blamed on anyone else except the Sports Council.
At the end of it all, it is Malawi boxing which is suffering. No wonder, as products of chaos, our boxers have become regional and continental punching bags.
It is frustrating for some of us who have loved the sport from our childhood to see it crumbling because of a few individuals’ egos.
Please, Sports Council ensure that this madness must stop for the sake of the sport.
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