DRC BOXERS ARRIVE IN NAIROBI AS CHANGALAWE WARMS UP FOR ZONE 3 WITH A PRO BOUT IN DAR
▪️The Tanzanian stopped a Ugandan opponent to clinch PST title
October 12, 2025
Two boxers from DR Congo arrived today in Nairobi ahead of the Africa Zone 3 Championships scheduled for October 16-24 at Kasarani Gym.
Middleweight Lulua Benedict (picture left) and light-middleweight Danielle Muleketi are from Goma in Eastern DRC which nearer Nairobi than DR Congo’s capital city Kinshasa.
The distance between Goma and Nairobi is approximately 1,253km, while the distance between Goma and Kinshasa is about 2,623km.
The two boxers are part of DR Congo’s team to take part in the Africa Zone 3 Championships. The Central Africans are the defending champions.
Meanwhile in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s Commonwealth Games light-heavyweight bronze medallist Yusuf Changalawe (pictured with hands raised) captured the PST cruiserweight title by stopping Uganda’s Musa Ntege in a pro boxing bout.
Changalawe, who’s also a bronze medallist at the 2023 Africa Championships in Yaounde, dominated the Ugandan and there was no doubt on who will emerge victorious from the first bell.
The win is a morale booster for the Tanzanian light-heavyweight ahead of the Big Party in Nairobi.
Changalawe’s aim to win a gold medal was made easy now that Kenya’s Africa bronze medallist Robert “Man Man Ngori” Okaka and three-time Africa champion Pita Kabeji from DRC will not be taking part in the Zone 3 competition.
Okaka, a soldier with KDF, is busy at work while Kabeji has a WBC Africa pro boxing title fight at the end of October with compatriot David Tshama.
