The event has attracted leading boxers from clubs across the country and will be played on an open format with winners being declared national champions at every weight category. Teams expected to enter the event include league champions Police, 1999 champions Prisons, Kenya Defence Forces, Kentrak, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Nakuru, Nanyuki, Central and Mombasa. Kenya Defence Forces, who are shaping up at their show ground base in Jamhuri Park under the tutelage of former international Sammy Magima also hope to produce champions in the competition. Other top boxers in Police’s outfit are Kenya’s heavyweight boxer Elly Ajowi and super heavyweight Frederic Ramogi. They will be without their main boxers flyweight Harrison Mathuku and Olympian Aziz Ali, who got injured in Nakuru during the league’sseason finale.

Source: The Star November 17, 2016 00:32 UTC