For Immediate Release:
Charles Manyuchi official guest of Honour at 5 Nations Boxing Friendly Championship in Victoria Falls
· Event will be held on 21st December at 6pm sharp in the Grand Enclosure at The Kingdom Hotel. Tickets available from LIquorama., Victoria Falls.
VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE, December 17, 2019 —The Victoria Falls Boxing Academy in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Boxing Federation, is excited to announce that Zimbabwean superstar boxer, Charles Manyuchi, is the official Guest of Honour at the upcoming Five Nations Boxing Friendly Championship, being held on 21st December 2019 in Victoria Falls. The event will be held in the Great Enclosure at The Kingdom Hotel, starting at 6pm, with boxers from Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe competing. Charles “Busy Bee” Manyuchi is the current GBU intercontinental and UBC & WBF Middleweight World Champion, as well as former ABU champion, WBC Welterweight International Champion and WBC Silver Welterweight Champion. He is currently Zimbabwe’s top professional boxer.
Manyuchi is attending the event to support the Zimbabwean team in their quest to qualify for the Olympic Games and most especially to cheer on the two young junior boxers from Victoria Falls in their quest to go to the Youth Olympics, Prince Urengwa and Personal Mpofu. Tickets are selling fast for this event and are available from Liquorama in Victoria Falls.
“We look forward to having Mr Manyuchi as our guest and know the great inspiration this will be to the Zimbabwean team to have him in our corner. The Championship is going to be the event of the year on the Boxing Calendar and we look forward to making this a yearly event that will grow in scope and bring valuable sports tourism to Zimbabwe. We would like to thank Mr Manyuchi for backing the growth of boxing as a sport in Zimbabwe and look forward to producing many future world champions from our stable of young amateur boxers.”
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About the Victoria Falls Boxing Academy. Headed by Tobius Muposiwa, this group of dedicated boxers had previously earned the moniker of the “Bush Boxers”, as they trained in the surrounds of Victoria Falls town. Now, with the help of their own trust and outside sponsorship, the Academy proudly has a new home, with equipment supplied by kind donors and will open its doors to the public in 2020. The Academy not only trains some of Zimbabwe’s up and coming boxers but through Tobius’ mentorship, works with at-risk children, giving them a safe, healthy space to be in and teaches them discipline and life skills, transforming lives.
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Christie Brookstein
Media Liaison
