SIX-MAN CAMEROON TEAM FOR THE BIG PARTY IN NAIROBI
▪️ Coach Alain Didier Ngatcha names a crack team of six boxers he says will shake Kasarani Gym
Cameroon’s towering super-heavyweight Zacharie Mvogo is among the six boxers to represent the Central African country in the Africa Zone 3 Championships set for October 16-24 at Kasarani Gym in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi.
Mvogo made $15,000 in just two rounds of his super-heavyweight final against Agnes Kedy of the Seychelles at the 2023 Africa Championships in Yaounde.
He won via abandonment in two minutes 57 seconds of the second round.
In addition to Mvogo, there’s reigning Africa Championships minimumweight champion Wouang Marcial, 2023 Africa Championships flyweight bronze medallist Issouhou Mouhaman, welterweight Oumarou Mohamed, African Games light-heavyweight bronze medallist Fotouo Totap Junior and cruiserweight Baguiguana Georges who made his international debut in the 2024 African Championships in Kinshasa losing in the semi-finals to DR Congo’s Pita Kabeji and returned home with a bronze medal.
There were high expectations that DR Congo’s reigning Africa female flyweight champion Nyembo Gisele will meet Cameroon’s Reine Laure Ngoune for a rematch. However, coach Ngatcha said he decided to enter men only for the Nairobi event probably saving the women’s gas for the World Championships scheduled for December 2-13 in Dubai.
Reine outpointed Gisele 5-0 in the flyweight final at the 2023 Africa Championships in Yaounde.
Big-talking Gisele has been baying for Reine’s blood since her defeat to the Cameroon boxer. Nyembo still has formidable opposition in Kenya’s vastly improved Faith Nafuna and Africa Military Games silver medallist Veronica Mbithe, Uganda’s promising Angel Katushabe and Burundi’s 2022 Africa Championships silver medallist Ornella Havyarimana if she has not moved up to bantamweight.
The Burundi team has maintained a loud silence ahead of the Zone 3 Championships.
