Young boxers eager to make it to top league

With the National Intermediate Championships set for Thika next week, young boxers have expressed their ambitions to get promoted to the national boxing league.

A number of boxers have in the past missed the opportunity for two years and it’s time to try their luck this time round when the showpiece heads to the industrial town of Thika from April 20-22.

“It comes when I had missed the opportunity a number of times. However, I’m ready to box again with an aim to qualify to the top league,” said Leslie Odhiambo of Nakuru who plies in the flyweight.

He said he is ready to give his best despite falling to Nicholas Muuo of Nairobi in the finals of the National Novices Championships a few weeks back in the city.

Nakuru produced a number of male and female boxers heading to Thika, and sky is the limit according to their coach Lemid Thiong’o.

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