{"id":28973,"date":"2016-07-28T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28973"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:55:21","slug":"isaac-chilemba-not-giving-up-on-world-title-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/28\/isaac-chilemba-not-giving-up-on-world-title-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Chilemba not giving up on world title dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi boxing star, Isaac \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Chilemba, has vowed to achieve his dream of winning a world boxing title.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year, who is smarting from a light heavyweight fight loss in Russia to unbeaten Sergey Kovalev, on Wednesday said he was looking forward to a rematch against the Russian next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not given up on winning a world title. Never. The first thing I ask myself is \u2018does my opponent breathe in oxygen?\u2019 If the answer is yes, then there is no need to be afraid.<\/p>\n<p>I am not afraid of a man,\u201d said the orthodox fighter when he visited Times Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe that I could have done well if he had not caught me with that punch in the sixth round. Before that, I was leading in all the rounds. I believe that I can build on that in the rematch. My promoters are working out something for a rematch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chilemba said he was still battling to get his boxing message across to local authorities on the need for revamping boxing structures, adding that his dream was to host a boxing workshop and share his boxing success stories and tips.<\/p>\n<p>Chilemba is a second Malawian to grace the world boxing stage after Drake Thadzi, who relocated to Canada in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi boxing star, Isaac \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Chilemba, has vowed to achieve his dream of winning a world boxing title. The 29-year, who is smarting from a light heavyweight fight loss in Russia to unbeaten Sergey Kovalev, on Wednesday said he was looking forward to a rematch against the Russian next year. \u201cI have not given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28973","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\/28973","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=28973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28978,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions\/28978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}