Kenya: Boxing - Chule Crowned National Featherweight Champion
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The Nation (Nairobi)
7 July 2008
Posted to the web 7 July 2008
Richard Mwangi
Nairobi
Morris Chule was crowned Kenya's super feather-weight boxing champion when he knocked out Musa Njue on the 10th round at the St. Teresa's Social Hall on Saturday.
Chule would have ended the fight in the third round when he sent Njue to the canvas twice with hard punches to the head but on both occasions the referee, Vedo Okumu just brushed Njue's gloves and asked the two boxers to fight on as if Njue had merely slipped on the ring. In that round Njue was saved by the bell which was rung before any punch was thrown.
Njue, who kept his face covered most of the time threw wild punches which missed target by far. He was warned twice for bending below the belt but survived to the tenth round.
With a few seconds to the bell, Chule landed the killer punch, a hard right to the head that dazed Njue sending him to the canvas. He was given a mandatory count of eight and when he got up he just staggered leaving the referee with no option but end the fight.
Judy Waguthi easily won her six round featherweight fight against an inexperienced Consoleta Awour of Kisumu who had a butting problem.
Swift punches
Waguthi was in control from the first round landing swift punches to her opponents head. She started the first round with a lot of steam landing short punches to Awour's head. By the third round the two girl's were already tired. Although Waguthi was using the bout as a preparation for her fight with Fatuma Zarika, she was given the wrong opponent for that. Awour is still a novice and beating her does not prepare Waguthi well to meet a boxer of Zarika's calibre.
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The shortest fight of the day was in the lightweight between Samuel Kamau and James Odhiambo which ended a minute into the second of the scheduled four rounds. It was more of a street brawl than boxing. On the opening ball Kamau charged with punches on Odhiambo's body. He sent Odhiambo down twice in the opening round.
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