▪️From Kisumu the Soviets met the national team at City Hall in a Jamhuri Day celebration match. Did the Kenyans survive the Soviet’s onslaught?
COMING SOON: James Olie (pictured), a former international boxer and KDF soldier, will never forget this day when Soviet Union boxers clobbered the entire KDF 9-man team in December, 1984 in Kisumu. The heavily-armed KDF soldiers were hit hard as “sounds of gunfire” took centre stage in Kisumu.
Lemmy “Cobra” Katibi, one of the victims, refused to eat still smarting from the humiliation they went through.
“It was such a painful defeat,” recalls Olie who wondered how the Soviets mastered Kenya’s high altitude more than the locals.
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