MBITHE, FAITH FOURTH FIGHT WILL NOT HAPPEN IN BUSIA
▪️Defending champions KDF, Prisons and Kibra missing in action
Faith Nafuna aka Fekete was eagerly looking forward to her fourth fight with two-time Kenya Open champion Veronica Mbithe aka Pioneer.
“This time it’ll be echoes of war,” declared 20-year-old Nafuna in an interview with boxersworld.co.ke
But the fourth fight between these two promising female pugilists will not happen because defending champions KDF is among the teams not taking part in the first leg of the league starting today at the Farm View Hotel in Busia on the border of Kenya and Uganda.
Mbithe has defeated Nafuna three times but this time round Nafuna was ready to chalk up her first win over the KDF boxer, a silver medallist in the Africa Military Games.
“Mbithe is a tough boxer I respect her and we’re good friends but not in the ring,” said Nafuna who attributes her success to the inspiration she gets from her mum Joy Chasorini.
Nafuna will now have to wait for the second leg of the Kenya National Boxing League in Mombasa in July to battle it out with Corporal Mbithe, the first Kenyan female boxer to be employed by the KDF.
The other big fight affected by non appearance of KDF is the Robert Okaka vs Humphrey Ochieng War Three.
Ochieng aka Jakababa was tuned to this fight but he will have to wait for the second leg having lost twice so far to Okaka aka Man Man Ngori.
The highlight of the three-day league in Busia should be the hot-tempered flyweight fight between Kenya Open champion Diouf “Bashday” Muimi of Police and Nairobi’s Emmanuel “Manu” Chondo who has yet to accept Muimi beat him in the Kenya Open finals at the Charter Hall last month.
“I defeated Manu fair and square, he will never beat me again,” an angry Muimi said in reaction to Chondo’s contention that the Police boxer was handed victory on a silver platter through skewed officiating.
The first leg of the league will feature 10 clubs with Kenya Open champions Police expected to dominate the proceedings.
