{"id":53967,"date":"2017-09-22T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=53967"},"modified":"2017-09-22T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:24:40","slug":"nginjale-chitenje-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/nginjale-chitenje-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nginjale Chitenje dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former boxing star Nginjale \u2018Young Tough Ben\u2019 Chitenje, who added colour to the sport with his tough talking\u2014died at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The brother to the deceased, Mike Chitenje, Thursday confirmed the death of Nginjale who, at his peak, was a sworn rival to Wilson Masamba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that he is dead but I cannot say much at the moment. Let us talk later,\u201d Mike said.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board publicist Frank Chibisa was, Thursday, in the dark about Nginjale\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in touch with his father, and all I know is that he was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Central Hospital,\u201d Chibisa said.<\/p>\n<p>The former super lightweight boxer was inactive since 2010 when it was reported that he had secured a job as a truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>According to Boxrec, Chitenje last fought on May 30 2010 when he lost to Kenneth Chinthenga at Lilongwe Community Centre Ground.<\/p>\n<p>In his last seven fights, Nginjale won twice against Hassan Mohamed in 2008 and John Masamba in 2006 at Lilongwe Community Centre and BAT Ground, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former boxing star Nginjale \u2018Young Tough Ben\u2019 Chitenje, who added colour to the sport with his tough talking\u2014died at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre Thursday. The brother to the deceased, Mike Chitenje, Thursday confirmed the death of Nginjale who, at his peak, was a sworn rival to Wilson Masamba. \u201cIt is true that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53967","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\/53967","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=53967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53972,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53967\/revisions\/53972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}