{"id":28773,"date":"2016-07-26T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:27:58","slug":"isaac-chilemba-back-to-recharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/26\/isaac-chilemba-back-to-recharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Chilemba back to recharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fortnight after losing a world title fight to Sergey Kovalev in Russia, South African-based pugilist, Isaac \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Chilemba, has returned to his home of origin for a five-day breather.<\/p>\n<p>The Blantyre-born fighter, 29, was the centre of attraction as he jetted in through Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great to be home. If I have an opportunity, I will meet some of the boxers in Blantyre, but I would love to meet Mr President [Peter Mutharika] during my visit,\u201d said the pugilist, while admitting that he was still haunted by his loss to Kovalev in what was the Malawian\u2019s second straight defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Chilemba also lost to Eleider Alvarez in another fight in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good fight but I wasn\u2019t happy with the way I performed. I gave my best shot but it was not my day. We might have a rematch sometime next year,\u201d said Chilemba, whose record is 24-3-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fortnight after losing a world title fight to Sergey Kovalev in Russia, South African-based pugilist, Isaac \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Chilemba, has returned to his home of origin for a five-day breather. The Blantyre-born fighter, 29, was the centre of attraction as he jetted in through Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Monday. \u201cIt feels great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28773","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\/28773","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=28773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28778,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28773\/revisions\/28778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}