{"id":20552,"date":"2016-03-12T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2016-03-12T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T06:21:51","slug":"boxers-avoiding-me-osgood-kayuni-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/03\/12\/boxers-avoiding-me-osgood-kayuni-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxers avoiding me, Osgood Kayuni claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junior welterweight boxer, Osgood \u2018The Punisher\u2019 Kayuni, is kicking his heels in frustration over a growing lack of local challengers, saying inactivity is hampering his progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why boxers within my division are avoiding me. Of course, I have fought, and punished most of them,\u201d said the 28-year-old Malawi Defence Force pugilist.<\/p>\n<p>Kayuni has vented his frustrations as he sharpens his knuckles, preparing to bounce back into the ring on March 27 to challenge Tanzanian, Moses Mwalwanda, at Limpopo in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Kayuni said in the absence of local opponents, he might just have to bank on foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The Punisher then hailed newly-licenced stable, Zama Boxing Promotions, for considering him for the main non-title fight on the launch of the stable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t take it for granted to be considered for the main cast during the launch. I will repay them with a good performance,\u201d said Kayuni, whose career record is 23 wins, five losses and three draws.<\/p>\n<p>Zama managing director, Precious Matipwili, said they considered Kayuni because \u201cof late he hasn\u2019t been fighting regularly because some quarters seem to ignore his prowess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior welterweight boxer, Osgood \u2018The Punisher\u2019 Kayuni, is kicking his heels in frustration over a growing lack of local challengers, saying inactivity is hampering his progress. \u201cI don\u2019t know why boxers within my division are avoiding me. Of course, I have fought, and punished most of them,\u201d said the 28-year-old Malawi Defence Force pugilist. Kayuni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20552","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\/20552","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=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20557,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}