{"id":77748,"date":"2019-05-09T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77748"},"modified":"2019-05-09T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:13:09","slug":"anisha-bashir-explains-zimbabwe-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/anisha-bashir-explains-zimbabwe-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Anisha Bashir explains Zimbabwe camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s top female boxer, Anisha Bashir, has explained why she opted to train in Zimbabwe for her World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver fight against champion <a href=\"http:\/\/boxrec.com\/media\/index.php\/Chantelle_Cameron\">Chantelle Cameron<\/a> set for York Hall in London on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>The fight is also a WBC Final Eliminator to determine the next mandatory challenger for WBC Women\u2019s World Lightweight champion Delfine Persoon later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir said she needed a place where she could concentrate fully on the fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI opted for Zimbabwe because I train better here. I concentrate a lot and the facilities are super. I haven\u2019t seen much of Cameron but, from the little that I know, she is good but she can be stopped,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Malawian is the 2018 Malawi Sport Awards Personality of The Year award winner and holds African Boxing Union and Commonwealth super lightweight titles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWBC is not an ordinary belt. So, I want to get that belt,\u201d<\/em> Bashir said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bashir\u2019s Zimbabwean trainer, Clyde Musonda, said they have been waiting for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/anisha-bashir-gets-wbc-nod-for-big-fight\/\">fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI have been studying Anisha\u2019s opponent for some time and we have developed a good game-plan so that we should stop Cameron,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cameron, 27, has a perfect record, having won all nine fights, including six knockouts, whereas Bashir, 21, has eight knockout wins with five defeats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cGreat things never come from comfort zones&#8230;second day back in camp\u2026already working on new things\u2026so much more to come from me,\u201d<\/em> Cameroon tweeted ahead of her fight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi\u2019s top female boxer, Anisha Bashir, has explained why she opted to train in Zimbabwe for her World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver fight against champion Chantelle Cameron set for York Hall in London on June 28. The fight is also a WBC Final Eliminator to determine the next mandatory challenger for WBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77748","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\/77748","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=77748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77753,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions\/77753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}