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THE Zimbabwe Boxing Federation (ZBF) season ends on November 28 with the country’s rising pugilists set to trade leather at the Champion of Champions tournament in Chivhu.
Senior national team coach and acting ZBF technical director Mphilisi Moyo said the competition will afford them an opportunity to assess boxers that missed out on last month’s national championships that were also held in Chivhu.
Four provinces, Bulawayo, Matabeleland South, Manicaland and Mashonaland West failed to field boxers in the championships.
“The Champion of Champions will be a bigger tournament and we are expecting all top boxers. This tournament will give us a chance to look at some of the boxers that didn’t fight at the national championships so that we consider them for future international and regional games. There are a number of boxers that we’ve been monitoring and we hope to see them in Chivhu,” said Moyo.
Welterweight pugilists that caught Moyo’s attention include Hwange’s Future Maziya, Brighton Masiyambumbi of Bulawayo’s Nketa Boxing Club, the Midlands’ duo of Prince Carter and Liberty Muneri.
Trade Nkomozabo of Masvingo, who won gold at the Zimbabwe National Youth Games and fights in the flyweight division, has a chance to be selected for team Zimbabwe alongside Lobengula’s Wiseman Tshuma.
ZBF have also been monitoring the progress of Brendon Dennis of Mashonaland East as well as the Zimbabwe National Army’s Ndodana Moyo and Prosper Shumba.
A number of Bulawayo-based pugilists expected at the national team selection tournament are Lancelot Moyo, Edson Mapeku, Shadreck Machaya, Godknows Sithole and Samson Masiyambumbi and Assurance Moyo.
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