AFRICAN GAMES CHAMP OKONG’O BACK WITH A BANG!, JAKABABA AND OKAKA SET FOR A BRUISING FOURTH SHOWDOWN
▪️ Nakuru’s Madison Square Garden on fire as boxers eye national team places for the Zone 3 Championships with impressive Nakuru County’s Caleb Wandera silencing Kenyan international Ethan Maina
African Games middleweight champion Edwin Okong’o finally returned to local action today, September 19, 2025, in the third leg of the Kenya National Boxing League at the Madison Square Garden, Nakuru.
Okong’o put up a dominant show to outpoint George Cosby of Police who is a bronze medallist at the 2019 African Games.
Since representing KDF in the 2024 African Military Games in Abuja where he won gold, Okong’o has been missing in local action owing to pressing issues at his place of work.
He’s one of the boxers expected to represent Kenya in the Africa Zone 3 Championships in Nairobi from October 15-25.
Africa light-middleweight champion Boniface “The Hammer” Mogunde was in a class of his own in stopping Laikipia’s Clinton Mutua in the second round while Africa super-heavyweight silver medallist Clinton Macharia moved to the final beating KDF’s Eric Otengo on abandonment in the first round.
Nakuru County’s big-punching Caleb Wandera maintained his impressive performance dominating international Ethan Maina enroute to a deserved 3-0 points victory. He has definitely caught the selector’s eyes ahead of Zone 3 Championships.
Twice Africa Championships bronze medallist Robert Okaka aka Man Man Ngori and his arch-rival Humphrey “Jakababa” Ochieng are set for another bruising showdown in the finals on Saturday, September 20. It will be the fourth time they’ll be meeting with Okaka having won all the three fights. Okaka stopped Nakuru County’s Oliver Omondi in the first round of the light-heavyweight semi-finals while Jakaba stopped Mombasa’s Lazaro Odote.
Another mouth-watering final is the featherweight duel between rivals Chris Juma of Nairobi and Prisons’ Mwinyi Kombo.
In the only women’s semi-final bout today, Boxgirls’ international flyweight Lencer Akinyi outpointed national champion Sheila Auma of Kibra.
