Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter
WORLD Boxing Council welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi says Zimbabwe has to move mountains to revive the sport. Manyuchi was speaking soon after receiving the Sportsperson of the Year award at a function in Harare on Wednesday night. The 26-year-old said he will continue to have his matches in Zambia where he fights under Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions.

“I think for now I still want to fight in Zambia, that’s where my bread and butter is. In Zimbabwe we don’t have promoters, we don’t have equipment and we don’t have people who have got the love of sport in terms of boxing.

“In Zambia I get everything I need, including support, encouragement and recognition.

“I think people need to unite and bring everyone on board because we are just scattered in boxing,” said Manyuchi. He said he appreciates the recognition he got by being named the Sportsperson and the Sportsman of the Year.

“I would want to appreciate what SRC and Delta have done for me, I am happy but Zambia are ahead of us.

“I deserved to win the Sportsperson award because I was on top, so I was destined to win,” said Manyuchi.

Manyuchi said his manager is currently in the United States to organise a match for him and added that he wasready to fight anyone.

Rebekah Oberholzer from BMX also had a wonderful night winning the Junior Sportsperson of the Year and Junior Sportswoman of the Year.

The seven-year-old won the World Championships in Rotterdam, Holland. Oberholzer came first in the 5-7 class final and her mother, Samantha, said it has been an amazing year for her daughter.

“It’s an amazing achievement and we are very honoured that she has been recognised this way.

“She has had an amazing year, starting off when she won the World Championships, that was unbelievable and she has been better and better and this tops it all for a wonderful year,” said Samantha.

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