{"id":67764,"date":"2018-06-30T07:17:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T05:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67764"},"modified":"2018-06-30T07:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T05:17:03","slug":"malawi-defence-force-boxers-trade-barbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/30\/malawi-defence-force-boxers-trade-barbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Defence Force boxers trade barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY <strong>Mphatso Malidadi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four Malawi Defence Force boxers will forget about their military ranks and be involved in non-title fights at M1 Centre Point in Lilongwe Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the main fights, Chimwemwe Chiotcha will face Alick Mwenda in a middleweight eight-round contest whereas Chrispin Moliyati dates Wilson Masamba.<\/p>\n<p>Chiotcha, 34, said he was ready to stop Mwenda halfway in the bout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not joking. I am going for a knockout and it has to happen by the middle rounds,\u201d said the boxer, who has 15 wins, including 11 knockouts, eight defeats and a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Mwenda, also aged 34, said he was not shaken by Chiotcha\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk is cheap but when it comes to fighting, it is different. So, I have a small surprise for him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mwenda has seven wins, including two knockouts and 14 defeats.<\/p>\n<p>In another main fight, Moliyati said he was in the mood to frustrate Masamba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still thinks that he is still lethal so I just want to remind him that those days are gone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Masamba said he cannot lose to Moliyati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give my fans something to celebrate about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Masamba, 34, has 29 wins, including 10 knockouts, 10 defeats and a draw whereas Moliyati, 28, has 22 wins with 10 knockouts, eight defeats and four draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Mphatso Malidadi: Four Malawi Defence Force boxers will forget about their military ranks and be involved in non-title fights at M1 Centre Point in Lilongwe Sunday. In the main fights, Chimwemwe Chiotcha will face Alick Mwenda in a middleweight eight-round contest whereas Chrispin Moliyati dates Wilson Masamba. Chiotcha, 34, said he was ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67764","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\/67764","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=67764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67769,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764\/revisions\/67769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}