{"id":67573,"date":"2018-06-27T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67573"},"modified":"2018-06-27T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:28:03","slug":"ruth-chisale-chisale-gets-abu-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/27\/ruth-chisale-chisale-gets-abu-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Chisale Chisale gets ABU title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Promising boxer, Ruth Chisale, could finally realise her title aspirations, following an offer to face Nozipho Bell in an African Boxing Union (ABU) lightweight title fight on July 27 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after Chisale lost an opportunity to vie for two belts, Global Boxing Union and Women\u2019s International Boxing Federation in Germany on June 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/why-ruth-chisales-bout-failed\/\">due to her camp\u2019s differences with a matchmaker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chisale said she was keeping her fingers crossed ahead of the 10-round contest against the South African.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Malawian boxer, who can fight in three weight divisions, hopes the bout would become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that nothing will affect this fight. We have received the contract and we have accepted the offer,\u201d she said, adding that she was frustrated by a continued lack of fights.<\/p>\n<p>Chisale\u2019s local manager, Steve \u2018Mawenzi\u2019 Msiska, said time was ripe for Chisale to realise her dream.<\/p>\n<p>Chisale, 21, has 10 wins, including six knockouts, and a defeat whereas Bell has seven wins, including three knockouts, a loss and a draw.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the South African Female Super Featherweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Chisale\u2019s compatriot, Anisha Bashir, holds the ABU super lightweight and Commonwealth lightweight titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI: Promising boxer, Ruth Chisale, could finally realise her title aspirations, following an offer to face Nozipho Bell in an African Boxing Union (ABU) lightweight title fight on July 27 in South Africa. The development comes after Chisale lost an opportunity to vie for two belts, Global Boxing Union and Women\u2019s International Boxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67573","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\/67573","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=67573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67578,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67573\/revisions\/67578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}