{"id":37985,"date":"2016-12-28T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=37985"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T10:14:45","slug":"limbani-lano-reigns-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/12\/28\/limbani-lano-reigns-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbani Lano reigns supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limbani Lano proved to be the king of the ring on Saturday when he handed McDad Thipa Phiri his first defeat in a semi-professional heavy weight bout at New Nkhwanzi Lodge in Chigumula Township, Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>Lano defeated Phiri in the fourth round through a technical knockout.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bout of contrasting styles as Phiri opted for power while Lano deployed technique and power.<\/p>\n<p>After the win, Lano was all smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not an easy fight but I just thank God for the win. It was not through my power that I was able to defeat my counterpart. He came flat-out to knock me down,\u201d said Lano, who improved his record to 20 wins and two losses while Phiri has lost once in 19 bouts.<\/p>\n<p>Host Prince Chisese, Malawi Boxing Association (Maba) vice-General Secretary for the Southern Region, said despite the low turnout, the bout was a success.<\/p>\n<p>In the other bouts on the day, Euma Matoga defeated Mphatso Mateuza on points and Hannock Phiri beat Wyson Dick through a knockout in round three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limbani Lano proved to be the king of the ring on Saturday when he handed McDad Thipa Phiri his first defeat in a semi-professional heavy weight bout at New Nkhwanzi Lodge in Chigumula Township, Blantyre. Lano defeated Phiri in the fourth round through a technical knockout. It was a bout of contrasting styles as Phiri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37985","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\/37985","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=37985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38007,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions\/38007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}