Zambia Leads Africa with 3 Boxers in the Quarter-finals of Men’s World Boxing Championships

Zambia leads Africa with three boxers in the quarter-finals of the 23rd edition of IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships at Dubai Tennis Complex today, December 10, 2025. Africa will be represented by 12 boxers from nine countries including light-heavyweight boxer Robert Okaka who isthe only surving Kenyan in the $10,000 money bracket followed by Mozambique with two boxers.in the $10,000 money bracketwhere Mozambique has 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 in the $10,000 money bracket followed by Mozambique with two boxers.in the $10,000 money bracket followed by Mozambique with two boxers. 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