New year opportunity for ‘Queen of the Jungle’

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Tadious Manyepo-Sports Reporter
Herald

ONE of Zimbabwe’s top female boxersMonalisa Sibanda has been offered the opportunity to rule the world.

And she is willing to step up to the plate.

The Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) intercontinental welterweight champion has been handed the chance to challenge for the world title.

And the pioneering local female boxer has since met the set conditions to effectively pave the way for the fight which is scheduled for end of February.

She is billed to fight world title holder Alicia Kummer of Germany at the end of next month with the venue still to be determined.

The offer comes on the heels of Sibanda’s triumph in defending her intercontinental belt which she retained in July last year after beating challenger Small Valente Aciro of Uganda on points at the Kingdom Hotel in Victoria Falls. Although the victory was somehow overshadowed by the historic WBC training workshop and ABU convention which took part at the same venue, the country’s first female professional boxer has been receiving acclaim from all over the globe. Read more…