{"id":193271,"date":"2025-03-10T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-boxers-through-to-world-champs-round-of-16-without-throwing-punches\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:41:20","slug":"kenyan-boxers-through-to-world-champs-round-of-16-without-throwing-punches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-boxers-through-to-world-champs-round-of-16-without-throwing-punches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Boxers Through to World Champs Round of 16 Without Throwing Punches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 10, 2025 &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s Lencer Akinyi and Pauline Chege have qualified for the next round of the Women&#8217;s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia after their would-be opponents failed to show up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Chege was scheduled to face Bojana Gojkovic in a round of 32 bout in the featherweight category but the Montenegro national was a no-show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Consequently, the Kenyan was given a bye into the round of 16 without throwing a punch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">It was the same case for Akinyi whose round of 32 fight in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 10, 2025 &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s Lencer Akinyi and Pauline Chege have qualified for the next round of the Women&#8217;s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia after their would-be opponents failed to show up. Chege was scheduled to face Bojana Gojkovic in a round of 32 bout in the featherweight category but the Montenegro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8781,11203,430,4524,257,18782,254,22066,5093],"class_list":["post-193271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boxers","tag-champs","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-punches","tag-throwing","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}