{"id":73735,"date":"2019-01-29T02:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73735"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:31:04","slug":"wilson-masamba-blames-loss-on-fatigue-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/wilson-masamba-blames-loss-on-fatigue-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Masamba blames loss on fatigue, weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wilson-Masamba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-68637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wilson-Masamba-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wilson-Masamba-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wilson-Masamba-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Wilson-Masamba.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malawi Defence Force boxer, Wilson Masamba, has said he lost a chance to win the Universal Boxing Organisation belt because of several factors including weight difference and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Masamba suffered a fifth round technical knockout defeat to <a href=\"http:\/\/boxrec.com\/en\/boxer\/512403\">Idd Pialari<\/a> in a welterweight title contest in Tanzania on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Both boxers were vying for the vacant belt but the Tanzanian underlined his ruthlessness after dominating the fight from the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Masamba said Pialari weighed heavier and this contributed to his defeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>I weighed about 62.1 kilogrammes whereas my opponent weighed 66.3 kilogrammes. The other challenge was that I arrived in Tanzania late despite signing the contract in good time. It took me long to start off from home and I did not have time to rest and recover.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPialari was also very brutal. It was not the boxing that I have known all these years. So I just decided to give up the fight because it was not boxing anymore,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the boxer said he still has a chance to win an international title despite suffering a sixth-round technical knockout defeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am not a spent force. I will bounce back strongly. It is still possible for me to win an international belt. So, I will be challenging for international fights,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the loss, Masamba, 34, has 29 wins, five draws and 12 defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi Defence Force boxer, Wilson Masamba, has said he lost a chance to win the Universal Boxing Organisation belt because of several factors including weight difference and fatigue. Masamba suffered a fifth round technical knockout defeat to Idd Pialari in a welterweight title contest in Tanzania on Saturday. Both boxers were vying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73735","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=73735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73739,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73735\/revisions\/73739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}