{"id":32452,"date":"2016-09-24T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=32452"},"modified":"2016-09-24T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T08:00:09","slug":"osgood-kayuni-wilson-masamba-rekindle-rivarly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/osgood-kayuni-wilson-masamba-rekindle-rivarly\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgood Kayuni, Wilson Masamba rekindle rivarly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Defence Force boxers, Osgood \u2018The Punisher\u2019 Kayuni and Wilson \u2018Hard Hitter\u2019 Masamba, have fueled their rivalry by trading barbs ahead of their meeting today.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-round lightweight non-title contest is scheduled for Robins Park in Blantyre, where K400,000 is at stake for the winner and K350,000 for the loser. Kayuni defeated Masamba in previous two meetings.<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that Masamba is driven by revenge going into today&#8217;s combat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is not one of the best boxers in the country. This is his payback time. I will definitely make him kiss the canvas,\u201d said the 31-year-old boxer, who 35 fights of six defeats, two draws and 27 wins, including 12 knock-outs.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kayuni, 29, branded Masamba as a gold digger.<\/p>\n<p>He is someone I turn into a punching bag. I know he is broke. He just wants to fundraise since the money for the loser is quite huge as well,&#8221; said Kayuni, who has lost six fights, drawn thrice and won 23.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, retired boxers Kashitigu Ndoro, 75, and \u2018Tough\u2019 Ben Chitenje, 72 will meet in a supporting cast for the main bill, which Mulanje Last Boxing Promotions are hosting with support from Chombe Foods Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Defence Force boxers, Osgood \u2018The Punisher\u2019 Kayuni and Wilson \u2018Hard Hitter\u2019 Masamba, have fueled their rivalry by trading barbs ahead of their meeting today. The eight-round lightweight non-title contest is scheduled for Robins Park in Blantyre, where K400,000 is at stake for the winner and K350,000 for the loser. Kayuni defeated Masamba in previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32452","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\/32452","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=32452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32457,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions\/32457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}