{"id":65261,"date":"2018-05-15T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65261"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:48:18","slug":"felix-mwamaso-wins-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/felix-mwamaso-wins-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Mwamaso wins bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahaya Mwayipopa lost to Felix Mwamaso in an eight-round non-title middleweight fight which took place in Mzuzu on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing enthusiasts from the Northern Region city and surrounding areas thronged Obrigado Leisure Park where they were treated to a fight which was characterised by powerful punches from both fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans did not give Mwayipopa a chance to last beyond five rounds but he soldiered on against the highly-rated opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, three judges scored 79-74, 79-75 and 80-75 in Mwamaso\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>After the bout, Mwamaso saluted his opponent for lasting the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy is strong. I thought I would knock him out by the fifth round. But he has given me nice preparations for my forthcoming bout in Lilongwe,\u201d Mwamaso said.<\/p>\n<p>Mwayipopa described Mwamaso as one of the top boxers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has won many belts and competed in many international bouts but I withstood the heat in all rounds and, next time, I will defeat him,\u201d Mwayipopa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahaya Mwayipopa lost to Felix Mwamaso in an eight-round non-title middleweight fight which took place in Mzuzu on Sunday. Boxing enthusiasts from the Northern Region city and surrounding areas thronged Obrigado Leisure Park where they were treated to a fight which was characterised by powerful punches from both fighters. Many fans did not give Mwayipopa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65261","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\/65261","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=65261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}