{"id":79630,"date":"2019-06-26T02:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79630"},"modified":"2019-06-26T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:21:37","slug":"salimu-chazama-mussa-ajibu-pummeled-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/salimu-chazama-mussa-ajibu-pummeled-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Salimu Chazama, Mussa Ajibu pummeled in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawian boxers Salimu Chazama and Mussa Ajibu suffered technical knockout defeats in South Africa during non-title bouts at Time Square, Menlyn, Pretoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Chazama suffered a third-round technical knockout to Marios Matamba whereas a referee stopped Ajibu\u2019s fight against Flo Simba.<\/p>\n<p>Chazama took to the social media to explain the circumstances surrounding his defeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe matchmaker was struggling to accommodate us and provide meals. As such, I was weak and this affected my performance. I am saying this so that my compatriots should be careful when offered such bouts,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malawi Professional Boxing Control Board President, Lonzoe Zimba, said they were yet to get an official complaint from the boxers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>boxrex.com, <\/em>Chazama\u2019s (25) record had dropped to 13 wins, five defeats and two draws while Matamba, 25, improved his perfect record to 11 wins, including nine knockouts.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibu, 33, has dropped his record to 28 wins, including 24 knockouts, 14 defeats and five draws while Simba, 30, bettered his record to 15 wins, including 13 knockouts and five defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawian boxers Salimu Chazama and Mussa Ajibu suffered technical knockout defeats in South Africa during non-title bouts at Time Square, Menlyn, Pretoria on Saturday. Reports indicate that Chazama suffered a third-round technical knockout to Marios Matamba whereas a referee stopped Ajibu\u2019s fight against Flo Simba. Chazama took to the social media to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79630","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\/79630","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=79630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79633,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79630\/revisions\/79633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}