{"id":9701,"date":"2021-11-13T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring"},"modified":"2021-11-14T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:49:44","slug":"catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Phiri To Return To The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Zambian boxer, Catherine Phiri has entered a residential camp today in readiness for her return to the ring for the first time since 2019. Phiri who was recently commissioned as an officer in the Zambia air force-ZAF, will fight Kudakwashe Chiwendre of Zimbabwe for the interim world boxing council super bantamweight title fight in Lusaka on the 29th of January.<\/p>\n<p>Following her clearance by her employers to return to the ring, Phiri told the press that despite having last fought in 2019, she is fit as the military training she underwent three months ago kept her in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>The bout is being organized by oriental quarries boxing promotions and will see the Zambian former WBC bantamweight champion look to win the super bantamweight belt in front of the home fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Zambian boxer, Catherine Phiri has entered a residential camp today in readiness for her return to the ring for the first time since 2019. Phiri who was recently commissioned as an officer in the Zambia air force-ZAF, will fight Kudakwashe Chiwendre of Zimbabwe for the interim world boxing council super bantamweight title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[234,235,4255,233,4256],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-catherine-phiri","tag-zambia","tag-zambian-boxer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catherine Phiri To Return To The Ring - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zambian boxer, Catherine Phiri has entered a residential camp today in readiness for her return to the ring for the firs ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catherine Phiri To Return To The Ring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zambian boxer, Catherine Phiri has entered a residential camp today in readiness for her return to the ring for the firs ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-13T15:29:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-14T15:49:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/11\/img-61912ffb850f7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Catherine Phiri To Return To The Ring\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-13T15:29:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-14T15:49:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\"},\"wordCount\":148,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/11\/img-61912ffb850f7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Catherine Phiri\",\"Zambia\",\"Zambian boxer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/catherine-phiri-to-return-to-the-ring\",\"name\":\"Catherine Phiri To Return To The Ring - 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