Highly-rated Mussa Ajibu and Osgood Kayuni have become the latest Malawian boxers to suffer defeats in South Africa during title and non-title fights which took place over the weekend.<\/p>\n
SuperSport.com <\/em>reports that on a hot Highveld Sunday afternoon, Akani Phuzi from Limpopo Province stopped the rugged Ajibu in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round cruiserweight fight.<\/p>\n Earlier on the same day, South African Tshifhiwa Munyai defeated Kayuni in an undercard for the main bout at Blairgowrie Recreation Centre in Randburg.<\/p>\n On Friday, Masamba lost to Lunga Stimela in a bout which took place in Cape Town. It was now the turn of Ajibu and Kayuni to suffer the defeats.<\/p>\n In the opening round of the main fight, Ajibu and Phuzi reportedly came out cautiously, sparring for an opening with very little action.<\/p>\n In round two, Phuzi picked up the pace to score with some big lefts and rights to the head and body, according to www.supersport.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, Ajibu came back at him, throwing swinging left and right punches, with most of them blocked on the gloves by Phuzi.<\/p>\n The website adds that just before the bell, Phuzi dropped Ajibu with an overhand right to the head for a count.<\/p>\n In the third round, Phuzi dominated with big shots to the head and body as the Malawian barely survived.<\/p>\n A confident Phuzi came out at the bell for round four and took the fight to Ajibu, knocking him down with a straight right to the head in the neutral corner.<\/p>\n Ajibu beat the count but soon afterwards, a body shot sent him down again.<\/p>\n Rampant Phuzi never let Ajibu off the hook again, knocking him down for the third time in the round, referee Tony Nyangiwe stepped in to call the fight off at 1 minute 58 seconds into the round.<\/p>\n Phuzi improved his record to 8-0; 4 and Ajibu\u2019s record dropped to 28-13-5; 24.<\/p>\n It was a weekend to forget for the Malawian fighters.<\/p>\n South Africa-based boxing star Isaac Chilemba said he did not watch the fights involving his compatriots, but he followed the proceedings.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I spoke to the guys before and after the fights, and I believe they all did their best and Mussa in particular. I heard that he fought like a champion! The only thing that got to him was fitness; he got tired. I saw Wilson\u2019s fight online as he was fighting in Cape Town, and he showed a heart. Unfortunately, these guys get fight offers with only a few days or a week to prepare, therefore, they come here unfit and unprepared,\u201d<\/em> Chilemba said.\u2014The Daily Times\/ SuperSport.com<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Highly-rated Mussa Ajibu and Osgood Kayuni have become the latest Malawian boxers to suffer defeats in South Africa during title and non-title fights which took place over the weekend. SuperSport.com reports that on a hot Highveld Sunday afternoon, Akani Phuzi from Limpopo Province stopped the rugged Ajibu in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76370","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\/76370","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=76370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76378,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions\/76378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}