{"id":5749,"date":"2022-04-14T00:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2022-04-14T00:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T00:32:59","slug":"tanzanian-boxer-mwakinyo-stripped-of-african-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/04\/14\/tanzanian-boxer-mwakinyo-stripped-of-african-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian boxer Mwakinyo stripped of African title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mwakinyo won the ABU title on May 28, 2021 after registering a technical knockout (TKO) against Angolan boxer Maiala Antonio in the ninth round at the Next Door Arena in Masaki.<\/p>\n<p>The boxer then defended the title against Julius Indongo of Namibia on September 3 last year at the Ubungo Plaza, also in Dar es Salaam, in a TKO win.<\/p>\n<p>But, Mwakinyo didn\u2019t defend the title for six months, compelling ABU to take it away. ABU also dropped Mwakinyo to the third position of the super welterweight boxer rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked boxer in the ABU standings is Wale Omotoso of Nigeria, followed by Ghanaian boxer Patrick Allotey. The fourth boxer in the rankings is Emmaany Kalombo of the DR Congo, while Roarke Knapp of South Africa and Brandon Tysse &#8211; also of South &#8211; after are ranked fifth and sixth respectively.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Other boxers (with their country and position in brackets) are Richamond Djarbeng (Ghana: 7th); Simon Dlala (South Africa: 8th); Emile Kalekuzi (DR Congo: 9th); King Davidson (Nigeria: 10th); Dodzi Kemeh (Ghana: 11th); Yassine Aallam (Mrocco: 12th); Nkululeko Mhlongo (South Africa: 13th), and Sule Olagbade (Nigeria: 14th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being stripped of the Intercontinental title of the World Boxing Federation (WBF) a few months ago, prominent Tanzanian boxer Hassan Mwakinyo has suffered another blow to his boxing reputation following the decision of Africa Boxing Union (ABU) to strip him of the super-welterweight title recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[7,14,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-5749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-apie-project","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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