The Sunday Mail
Langton Nyakwenda
WORLD heavyweight champion Antony Joshua has been isolating with his close family members and has had to make do with garden workouts to keep fit.
Locally, Zimbabwe’s middleweight king, Charles Manyuchi, has retreated to his farm in Chivhu, some few kilometres away from where boxing trainer Clyde Musonda is also isolating with his family.
These are not usual times for the boxing fraternity as the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed more than 230 000 lives across the globe.
Manyuchi would by now have defended his World Boxing Federation and Global Boxing Union middleweight titles, but the coronavirus knocked out the match, which was set for the Harare International Conference Centre on April 4.
Revered local boxing promoter Stalin Mau Mau would by now have hosted his second “Peanuts to Diamond” fight night, plus an international symposium which was set for Harare last month. But for now, the 66-year-old Mau Mau — Zimbabwe’s own version of renowned American promoter Don King — is not thinking about boxing.
His boxers are also not talking about the matches they would have fought by now.
Instead, they are spending their time in this Covid-19 era in a unique way.
Pugilists from the Mau Mau stable who include Ndodana Ncube, Philip “Mad Cobra” Musariri, national female super bantamweight champion Zvikomborero Danzwa and Talent Nyagura are involved in humanitarian work.
