Boxer Charles Manyuchi’s sweet news for Chipinge

Professional boxer and former World Boxing Council welterweight champion, Charles Manyuchi, has sweet news for Chipinge and other areas. Manyuchi, who is running a sports academy in Chivhu where he was allocated 3.5 hectares of land by Chikomba Rural District Council, revealed to this reporter that he is scouting for talent in Chipinge.

Manyuchi, who is rated the 35th best boxer in the world, was in Chipinge on a look-and-learn tour of Magistics Gangara Farm owned by Prosper Chibaya at Clearwater, about 17km north-east of Chipinge town, on 28 September this year. Prosper Chibaya co-owns the sports academy with Charles Manyuchi.

“My project, Charles Manyuchi Sports Academy in Chivhu, is well fenced and has an administrative office operational. The academy was officially opened by the former Minister of State for Industry and Commerce.

“The academy is open to any talented sportsperson of any age. The academy caters for soccer, volleyball, netball and boxing disciplines. The academy focuses much on the underprivileged and people from marginalised societies. Chipinge is my first choice since my business partner has a farm here,” said Manyuchi.

The academy has hosted three boxing tournaments, and the latest was that held in August this year against Zambians. According to the boxing ace, no one from the Charles Manyuchi Sports Academy lost.

“All the boxers that we fielded won their fights. We have three female boxers who are doing well. We put value on our sportspersons by giving them image in the form of branded kits. We also give them decent payouts,” continued the top boxer.

Sportspersons under Charles Manyuchi Sports Academy go into camp for a month before matches.

“Our sportspersons board in Harare’s leafy suburb of Borrowdale whenever we are to hold matches. We do this in order to give them enough attention so they enter competition fit and ready for the matches,” added Manyuchi.

Charles Manyuchi was born in Bulawayo and grew up in Mtoko, where he attended school at Chifamba High in Mudzi. During his amateur boxing career, Manyuchi joined boxing stables between 2006 and 2010 in the sugar estate at Triangle and later moved to Masvingo. He was signed for professional boxing by Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotion of Zambia in 2012 when he went to the neighbouring country for a boxing tournament. Manyuchi breeds dogs for sale as part of his income generation project at his 100-hectare farm in Chivhu that he was allocated by the Government of Zimbabwe.