South Africa-based Malawian heavyweight boxer Isaac Miguel Chilemba is confident that he will beat Eleider \u201cStorm\u201d Alvarez in a mandatory WBC fight at Centre Videotron in Quebec City, Quebec in Canada.<\/p>\n
A win would boost Chilemba\u2019s chances to challenge Adonis \u201cSuperman\u201d Stevenson for the WBC Light Heavyweight World title next year.<\/p>\n
Golden Boy as Chilemba (24-2-2, 10 KOs) told online publication that getting a mandatory challenge at the expense of Alvarez (18-0, 10 KOs) was a must.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really doesn\u2019t matter where I fight. I don\u2019t mind having no fans in the crowd but, hopefully by the end of the fight, there will be fans that cheer for me. I am just there to do my job. I hope everybody here in the US and Canada watching live and back at home in Malawi and South Africa will get to see a good fight,\u201d he told fightnews.com. <\/em><\/p>\n Chilemba admittedly knows little about his opponent and his trainer, former welterweight world champion James \u201cBuddy\u201d McGirt, warns against focusing too hard on the other guy.<\/p>\n \u201cI have watched him. I study guys but I try not to watch too much. Sometimes you have a tendency to study a guy too much and you realize he does something but then he doesn\u2019t do that one thing and you are thrown. So I watched him but we are going to be prepared for anything and everything,\u201d McGirt told the same online publication.<\/p>\n Chilemba, 28, was born in Blantyre. He moved to Johannesburg, South Africa in 2004 to pursue a professional boxing career.<\/p>\n Over the last ten years since his professional debut, Isaac has very quietly climbed the ranks of the light heavyweight division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa-based Malawian heavyweight boxer Isaac Miguel Chilemba is confident that he will beat Eleider \u201cStorm\u201d Alvarez in a mandatory WBC fight at Centre Videotron in Quebec City, Quebec in Canada. A win would boost Chilemba\u2019s chances to challenge Adonis \u201cSuperman\u201d Stevenson for the WBC Light Heavyweight World title next year. Golden Boy as Chilemba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12608,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}