{"id":39952,"date":"2017-02-01T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=39952"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T07:14:20","slug":"anisha-basheer-steps-up-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/anisha-basheer-steps-up-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Anisha Basheer steps up training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female boxer, Anisha Basheer, has started camp training in Blantyre ahead of her African Boxing Union (ABU) welterweight contest against an unnamed Kenyan opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have started my preparations earlier because my stable wants me to be in shape before the contest. This is the fight of my life. I want to do well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe-based boxer has a poor record and needs to improve her performance to win the belt.<\/p>\n<p>Basheer lost five fights in arrow before winning three in a row to start improving her record.<\/p>\n<p>Basheer said she was sparring with male boxers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learn a lot when I spar with the likes of Israel Kam\u2019mwamba and Limbani Masamba. I believe that in a month or so, I will be in top form,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board President, Lonzoe \u2018Defector \u2019 Zimba, has drummed up support for Basheer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reputation of the nation will be at stake, so we need stakeholders to support her so that she can win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female boxer, Anisha Basheer, has started camp training in Blantyre ahead of her African Boxing Union (ABU) welterweight contest against an unnamed Kenyan opponent. \u201cI have started my preparations earlier because my stable wants me to be in shape before the contest. This is the fight of my life. I want to do well,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39952","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\/39952","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=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39958,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions\/39958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}