Exodus Boxing Promoter Preachman Mwamba, 1988 Olympian, Dies of Coronavirus at 61
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Lusaka, Zambia (January 22, 2020)– One of Zambia’s few active boxing promoters, and active support of female boxing in his country, Exodus Boxing Promotions director Anthony ‘Preacherman’ Mwamba, passed away at age 61 on Thursday, January 21, 2021, of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus at the Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (LMUTH) in the Chainama Hill Area of his native Lusaka, Zambia.
As an amateur welterweight, Mwamba competed for Zambia at the 1988 Olympic Games, in Seoul, South Korea. Mwamba went on to win a Bronze Medal at welterweight (67 kilograms) for Zambia at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, before turning professional. As a professional welterweight between 1991 and 2000, Mwamba was 6-1 with three knockouts. Mwamba fought his entire professional career in Lusaka, winning his first six professional bouts before losing a points decision to Uganda’s Deo Wanana for the vacant International Boxing Federation Africa Welterweight title in December 2000.
The Zambian Boxing Federation (ZBF) expressed sadness over the loss. Zambia Boxing Federation General Secretary Bright Chomba, in an interview with ZANIS part of which appears in the Lusaka Times, said “The death of Mwamba is a sad development to the boxing fraternity. The loss of Mwamba, who represented our country in promoting boxing at a high level, has left a gap in the Zambian boxing community which will be hard to fill. Mwamba contributed a lot to the boxing fraternity, like bringing Women boxing into light, and advising former female super featherweight and super lightweight world boxing champion Esther Phiri, among others.
Between June 2007 and April 2019, Mwanda promoted 12 boxing cards in Lusaka and N’Dola, Zambia, a career as a boxing promoter which stopped when the coronavirus hit.
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