Wenslus Murape
Tadious Manyepo, Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S top female boxer Kudakwashe “Take Money” Chiwandire will have to wait until at least next year to get another chance to lay her hands on a title.
The 28-year-old former WBC super-bantam weight interim champion had set her guns on winning the WBF intercontinental belt on Saturday.
But the duel against South Africa’s Nomusa Ngema in Dundee, Durban, has been cancelled.
It leaves the Zimbabwean pugilist a disappointed athlete.
One of the organisers of the bout, Elphas Dladla, wrote to both Ngema and Chiwandire confirming the cancellation.
“I am informing you regretfully that the bout between your boxer (Nomusa Ngema and Kudakwashe Chiwandire) is officially cancelled,” read the notice.
“The bout was due to be a WBF intercontinental title scheduled to take place on the 12th of October 2024 in KwaZulu Natal Province Dundee.
“We are aware that the boxers have been waiting for this bout to happen and have prepared for it but due to unforeseen complications, the bout is officially cancelled.”
However, Chiwandire knows she doesn’t have to dwell into the disappointment forever as she needs to get back into the ring and regain match fitness more than a year after her last fight in Mexico.
Her former boss at Deltaforce Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Academy, Clyde Musonda, has already hastily put together a fight for her against Tanzania’s Flora Machela in Lilongwe, Malawi on October 27.
It will be the undercard to the main draw card featuring another Zimbabwean, Farai Makombe, against Simeon Tchetha.
Two other Zimbabweans – Tinashe Majoni and Tinashe Mwadziwana – will battle it out against Alick John and Nyungabo Kuminga, both of Malawi, on the same bill.
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