John Baker Muwanga is one of Uganda's best boxing champions. He was born near Kampala on April 2, 1956 and grew up in Nsambya. Another newly-born boxer in Uganda, Joseph Nsubuga, is Muwanga's half-brother.
Equally unique and fascinating is how Muwanga started boxing, how he improved, and why and how he hangs his gloves. His boxing road began in Namiuga, a half-brother born in Kenya in early 1950, in Nsambya's home in 1963, accompanied by his sister and mother. The fathers of these children worked in East African railways and ports working in Kenya. Muwanga is very happy to have a brother around. Nsubuga is involved in boxing competitions. Soon, Muwanga will accompany Nsubuga to the police boxing club in Nsambya several times. But Muwanga was not impressed with the sport. In addition, Muwanga's mother will soon leave the house and live with Muwanga and one of his sisters. He soon became a student at the boarding school Mugwanya Preparatory School [Kabojja]; then he was transferred to a sister school. Savio Elementary School on Entebbe Road.
In Savio in 1969, Muwanga finally fought against a bully who happened to be the son of a politically outstanding figure. Muwanga was expelled from the school. His father was very angry and assured him that he would never make any sense. At the same time, the brother Nsubuga is engaged in a stable boxing attack, Muwanga has been concerned because he has just become a brother - although he was depressed relatively weak and not as tough as his boxing brothers. It was here that Muwanga decided to try boxing. He was paired with his opponent and he was severely beaten and ridiculed. People from northern Uganda are considered excellent fighters, and Muwanga is not encouraged to continue boxing because such boxers will "kill you nothing". But ridicule makes Muwanga more resolutely rebut the skeptics.
Muwanga dared to participate in the National Youth Championship held at the Nsambya police shed. He will represent the Nsambya Boxing Club. In that place and at that time, medical examinations did not meet the standards in those days and were not taken seriously. Muwanga is allowed to pack. He matches Tilima, the opponent from the Naguru Boxing Club. In the battle, Muwanga did not prove himself; he was much better than his opponent to try to prevent him from humiliating him. Tilima even pretended to be knocked down, even though he had not been hit. Muwanga writes [personal communication, June 10, 2014]:
"It's a show! This guy tried everything not to humiliate me, but the failed person laughed until the tears were there. He got a warning. I lost, the crowd laughed."
Muwanga's colleagues will laugh at him because of the fight. This made him work harder to become a good boxer. Earlier on Sunday, he decided to go to the Kampala Boxing Club in Nakivubo. Muwanga wrote, "I went to Nakivubo's KBC and decided to learn how to box or die" [Personal Communications, June 10, 2014]. The club is closed.
Muwanga returned to KBC the next morning. A colleague of James Bond Okwaare teased Muwanga's boxing style. Okwaare was quickly scolded by national team coach Erias Gabiraali. Muwanga began training there because he met some national boxers. These include Ayub Kalule, Cornelius Bbosa Boza-Edwards, Mustafa Wasajja, Ben Ochan, Alex Odhiambo, Ochodomuge and David Jackson. Even Muwanga's brother Nsubuga will be involved. In the conclusion written by Muwanga [personal communication, June 10, 2014]:
"One day, I was shocked when I heard that my brother went to Scotland [the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970] to represent Uganda. The sweet boy next door to the slum, John Opio, is also John Opio in the team. Honest sweat, hard work and discipline have justice... the rest are history."
On July 18, 1970, at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, 16-year-old Joseph Oscar Nsubu [lightweight] was defeated by the Zambian Olympic athlete Kenneth Mwansa in the preliminaries.
At the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, the 20-year-old Nsubuga now defeated Philippe Sa Paq of Papua New Guinea in a light welterweight. This happened in the first round of the preliminary game on January 27. When Nsubuga quickly defeated the opponent, the referee stopped the game early. However, in the quarter-finals held two days later, James Douglas of Scotland beat Nsubuga with a score and then stopped Nsubuga to seek a medal.
A few months later, in August 1974, Nsubuga, as a middleweight, won a bronze medal in the inaugural World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana. Nsubuga rose to the middleweight sector.
The TSC Championship was held at the Dynamo-Sporthalle in Berlin from October 3rd to 7th, 1974. In the quarterfinals, Nsubuga as a middleweight defeated Zapirianov [Bulgaria] with points. But in the semi-final, Peter Tipold of the German Democratic Republic defeated him with a score. He won the bronze medal. The Uganda team performed very well: James Odwori [lightweight] and Ayub Kalule [light welterweight] won the gold medal; Vitalish Bbege [the welterweight] won the silver medal.
Nsubuga will make its debut in May 1975, then move to Finland and then move to Norway; he mainly fights in Europe. In 1981, Nsubuga was eliminated by the famous future world champion David Moore, thus stopping the competition. Nsubuga's most striking battle was his fierce gladiator [non-championship], which was renamed Panamanian Roberto Duran in Las Vegas on January 13, 1980. The Panamanian seems to be very tired, but Joseph "Stoneface" Nsubuga was eliminated at the end of the fourth round. He retired from boxing in 1981 and scored an impressive 18 wins and 3 losses. Nsubuga died in Helsinki on May 4, 2013 at the age of 59.
In the 1970s, at Namasagali College in the Kamuli district of Uganda, Muwanga showed itself to be a skilled, scary and popular boxer. At the amateur level, he is said to have defeated the new future world champion and Ugandan compatriot Cornelius Boza-Babosa twice. In April 1973, the annual Golden Belt Championship was held in Bucharest. Most of the winners and silver medal winners were originally Cubans and Romanians. It is here that the 17-year-old Muwanga participated in the international competition for the first time. Muwanga and his accomplices in Uganda - Ayub Kalule, Vitalish Bbege and James Odwori - both won bronze medals in Romania. In the same period in 1973, Muwanga cooked for Uganda twice in two Urafiki [Kenya vs. Uganda] competitions; he won. When the veterinarian Ugandan boxing legend Alex Odhiambo has so criticized the young boxer so far, Muwanga quickly became overwhelmed. He nodded and let him nod. Thumb up!
During the local and training period, Muwanga has repeatedly fought Odwori and another famous Ugandan boxer "Kabaka" Nasego, but he did not win. Among the Ugandans he defeated were Vincent Byarugaba and several others. Muwanga worked as a national amateur boxer from 1973 to 1977, when he was a student at Namasagali College; since then, he has been a professional at the University of Oslo. Muwanga recalls that in the training camp, behavioral attitudes vary from boxer to boxer. As agreed, the skilled Odwori is particularly talkative, and Ayub Kalule prefers words and deeds [personal communication, October 29, 2015]:
"...people like Ayub Kalule... I tend to take action, this is what I think." James Oduri speaks a mile every minute, but he has the ability to support Everything he said. ' Kasuku' [Parrot] behind. "
In August 1974, in the first World Amateur Championships in Havana, John Muwanga represented Uganda in a lightweight competition. It is worth noting that Kalule and Nsubuga won gold and bronze medals respectively. Muwanga was eliminated in the qualifier by Bejhan Fuchedzhiyev [Bulgaria]. It is worth noting that most of the six Ugandan contingents in Havana studied at Namasagali - one of the few schools in Uganda that embrace boxing. In addition to Muwanga, the boxers who participated in Namasagali included Nsubuga, Odwori, John Byaruhanga, Vincent Byarugaba and Shadrack Odhiambo.
Muwanga's national status continued to rise. At the age of 20, he was selected to represent Uganda for the Montreal Summer Olympics. Most African countries, twenty-eight of them, boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, when the International Olympic Committee [IOC] refused to ban athletes from participating in the Olympic Games in South Africa. The New Zealand football team then traveled to South Africa to tour. China, Iraq and Guyana also withdrew; although it is related to China, it is mainly related to the recognition of political names - not recognizing the "Republic of China" and "Republic of China."
Ugandan boxers withdrew from the competition because biscott includes Baker Muwanga [lightestweight] and Venostos Ochira [lightweight], Adoni Butambeki [lightweight], Cornelius Boza-Edwards [Bbosa] [lightweight], David Ssenyonjo [Lightweight], Jones Okoth [light welterweight], Vitalish Bbege [secondary welterweight] and John Odhiambo [light welterweight]. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, none of these boxers represented Uganda. Vitalish Bbege won the gold medal at the African Boxing Championships in Kampala in 1974.
Muwanga began his career in Norway in April 1978 and ended in October 1982. He is mainly lightweight. All his matches took place in Norway, away from the last two games in Finland. ...
Orignal From: John Baker Muwanga and Oscar Joseph Nsubuga: Uganda Brothers and Sisters Boxing Champion
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