Catherine Phiri

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                          Catherine Phiri 

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Catherine debuted on 25 July 2011 when she defeated Zambian boxer Esther Chalwe at the National Sports Development Centre in Lusaka. She is currently the only female Zambian professional boxer Known around the world that is still boxing. With an empressive history of 16 wins( 10 of them Knockouts) and only 4 loses in the 20 matches she's had so far. Her biggest achievement came in 2016 When she won the WBC female bantamweight title and held it from 2016 to 2017 becoming the first Zambian boxer to win the WBC bantamweight title and on 17 December 2016, she was honoured by the World Boxing Council for becoming the first African boxer  to win a WBC title. As of July 2020, she is ranked as the world's tenth best active female super-bantamweight by BoxRec.

President Edgar Chagwa Lungu honoured Catherine Phiri with the Zambia insignia of meritorious achievement award for her accomplishment on Africa Freedom Day, 25 May 2017. She is expected to go and study Sports Management at the European School of Economics in Italy.





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