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THE Zimbabwe National Boxing Control Board have cancelled the World Boxing Union bantamweight fight which was slated for this weekend at the City Sports Centre.
The match, sanctioned by the WBU, would have seen local boxing promoter Delta Force staging a bout between Zimbabwean boxer Tapiwa Tembo and Zambia’s Gibon Kamota.

By yesterday the promoter was making frantic efforts to furnish ZNBCB with all requirements, including contracts and medicals for the eight local boxers.

The ZNBCB have accused the promoters of flouting boxing regulations.
“We, as the country’s boxing mother board, have notified Delta Force that we cancelled the event last Friday after they failed to meet our requirements,” Gilbert Munetsi, the board secretary, said.

“Initially, the promoter had managed to secure clearance from the WBU in the first quarter of the year but there were a lot of changes taking part until we resolved that we should cancel the event.

“We had given them Lorraine Muringi, who has the expertise in organising such events, but they dumped her along the way. As the mother board we expected several things which the promoters failed to deliver but we were patient with them.

“We expected to be shown the purse money as we are there to protect the boxers and we needed the contracts between the boxers and the promoters. We have already written to Delta Force and they are still to come back to us.”

The boxing board said while they were in support of such a huge event, they could not let it be held against a background of their rules being flouted.

“We like to have matches of such bouts of this magnitude but without all the requirements being fulfilled, we cannot allow it to happen,” said Munetsi.