▪️After the round of 16, Africa remains with 12 boxers from nine countries who have qualified for the quarter-finals
▪️IBA’s entry list shows a total of 128 boxers from 34 African countries entered the 2025 Men’s World Boxing Championships in Dubai
▪️Cape Verde’s Olympic Games bronze medallist David Pina blames coach following his 5-0 defeat by Serbia’s Artur Nagapetjan as nine African boxers qualify for quarters on Day Six.
10/12/2025
Africa will be represented by 12 boxers from nine countries in the quarter-finals of the 23rd edition of IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships at Dubai Tennis Complex today, December 10, 2025.
Zambia leads Africa with three boxers in the $10,000 money bracket followed by Mozambique with two boxers.
The three Zambians in the quarters are African Games flyweight champion Patrick “Baddo” Chinyemba, bantamweight Mwengo Mwale and light-welterweight Emmanuel Katemba both silver medallists at the Accra African Games.
African Games featherweight silver medallist Armando Sigauque and Commonwealth Games light-middleweight silver medal winner Tiago Muxanga are the two boxers from Mozambique.
The rest of the seven countries have one boxer each in the quarter-finals.
Here they are : Cruiserweight Adriano Kiana (Angola), cruiserweight Pita Kabeji (DR Congo), light-heavyweight Robert Okaka (Kenya), middleweight Djibril Traore (Mali), flyweight Fabrice Valerie (Mauritius), featherweight Mathibule Sigwela (South Africa) and welterweight Bob Turyatemba (Uganda).
Nine boxers out of 19 in action on Day Six qualified to the quarters to join three others who made it to the last eight on Day Five.
Among the casualties was Olympic Games bronze medallist David Pina who lost by unanimous points to the tough big-punching Serbian Artur Nagapetjan in the bantamweight division.
“I blame my for not telling I was trailing on points in round one and two, he only told me in the third round by then it was too late,” Pina told boxersworld.co.ke
Kenya’s Paul Omondi and Tanzania’s Issa Faki were also bundled out with Omondi joining compatriot Washington Wandera who lost on Day Five.
Zambia’s Paris Olympics quarter-finalist Patrick Chinyemba was the most impressive African winner on Day Six with an emphatic points victory over Moldova’s Ion Plinga who punched the air for the better part of the three rounds failing to connect on the swift moving Zambian whose ring antics added more flavour to his win.
IBA’s entry list shows Africa entered 128 boxers from 34 countries in the World Championships in Dubai. The 12 in the quarters are the only ones remaining in the competition.
The quarter-final pairings involving the 12 African boxers:
Flyweight
Patrick Chinyemba (Zambia) vs Daniyal Sabit (Kazakhstan)
Fabrice Valerie (Mauritius) vs Bair Batlaev (Russia)
Bantamweight
Mwengo Mwale (Zambia) vs Saken Bibossinov (Kazakhstan)
Featherweight
Armando Sigauque (Mozambique) vs Abdrei Peglivanian (Russia)
Masibule Sigwela (South Africa) vs Khustravkhon Rhakhimov (Tajikistan)
Light-welterweight
Emmanuel Katema (Zambia) vs Pavel Fedorov (Serbia)
Welterweight
Bob Turyatemba (Uganda) vs Alexandru Paraschiv (Moldova)
Light-middleweight
Tiago Muxanga (Mozambique) vs Sergei Koldenkov (Russia)
Middleweight
Djibril Traore (Mali) vs Sergio Martinez (Spain)
Light-heavyweight
Robert Okaka (Kenya) vs Dzhambulat Bizhamov (Russia)
Cruiserweight
Adriano Kiana (Angola) vs Georgii Kushitashvili (Georgia)
Pita Kabeji (DR Congo) vs Aliaksei Alfiorau (Belarus)
