Kenya : all eyes on Fatuma vs Phiri boxing day

Kenyan titleholder Fatuma Zarika and Zambian challenger Catherine Phiri promised an epic battle for their World Boxing Council (WBC) women’s super bantamweight title bout in Nairobi on Saturday.

The boxers were speaking on Friday after making the cut for the fight after tipping the scales at 55Kgs each during the weigh-in for the scheduled 12-round bout at a Nairobi hotel.

Zarika and Phiri will face off in a rematch of their bloody WBC title fight the Kenyan won 3-0 on unanimous decision on December 2, 2017 with the home favorite putting her belt on the line for the third time since October 2016 when she beat Jamaican Alicia Ashley in New York to clinch the title.

“I would like to thank my fans and I’m grateful you are all here. I’m great, there is no need to talk much, we can only go to the ring and do our talking there,” the 34 year-old Zarika told journalists.

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