By Juma Ali
Jinja, Uganda – The second inter-cities night fight climaxed on Saturday night at Crested Crane hotel in Jinja with end to end encounter.
Seventeen bouts were on the day’s undercard and that between Hassan of Jinja City and Frank Kiwalabye a.k.a Black fire of Wakiso Town was the most entertaining bout of the day where Kiwalabye knocked down Hassan in the 6 round.
Out of the 17 bouts, Wakiso Town won 9 bouts while Jinja managed only 7 wins and one bout between Fredrick Okou of Jinja City and Tom Muwanguzi of Wakiso ended in a draw.
The ladies’ category had only two bouts where Jinja City won all of them and emerged Champions while Wakiso Town emerged Champions in the Boys category and overall.
These inter-cities night fight are organized by Friends of Boxing and proudly sponsored by Fortebet Uganda.
“We are very grateful to organize this second inter-cities night fight and the numbers have increased this time”, Frank Luyinda, Friends of Boxing official states.
The results on the day were as follows;
Edema Hamza Hamid of Wakiso City opened the win for Wakiso City after defeating Ismail Ssebaale of Jinja City.
Brian Akankwasa (SPC man) from Wakiso City stopped Nasifu Ngobi of Jinja City in the first round.
Kubako Ambrose of Wakiso City won Wafula Kevin of Jinja City after suffering a serious injury which forced the referee to stop the bout.
Brian Oyeti of Jinja got the first win for Jinja side after winning Kavuma Michael of Wakiso City in the bantam weight.
Monkoli Steven aka Golola of Jinja City lost to Dumba Stephen of Wakiso City in the welter weight.
Amos Kelly of Jinja City suffered a knockout in the first round from Stanley Mugerwa of Wakiso and this gives Stanley’s record of 10 fights with 10 wins.
George William of Jinja City won Swalick Kisitu of Wakiso City with a knockout in the third round in welter weight category.
Phiona Naigaga of Jinja City defeated Rosette Nakigudde of Wakiso City in bantam weight.
Shagi Simon of Jinja City lost with a knockout in the first round against Kibira Owen aka Matrix of Wakiso City and this puts Kibira’s record of 7 fights with 7 wins.
Fredrick Okou of Jinja City produced one of the best fight on the day against Tom Muwanguzi of Wakiso City but at the end, the judges called a draw game which produced noise from Jinja fans.
Kiwalabye Frank of Wakiso City knocked down Were Hassan of Jinja City in the 6 round in the super bantam weight.
Mpaata Jacob of Jinja City knocked down William Jaggwe of Wakiso City in the second round in light weight.
Samali Ntambi of Jinja City lost to Sseguya Abaasi of Wakiso City with a knockout in third round in super welter weight.
Rachael Musubika of Jinja City won with a technical knockout against Akello Claire of Wakiso City in third round of the light weight.
Nadhomie Zubairi of Jinja City knocked down Wakiso’s Tookema Patrick in first round of the super welter weight.
Biso Ibrahim of Jinja City defeated Grace Batanye aka Gologosa of Wakiso City with points in the super middle weight.
Daniel Musubo Mpologoma lost to Abdul Rashid Wanyama of Wakiso City with a technical knockout in the cruiser weight and this was Wanyama’s first win in 7 professional fights.