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BOXING: Peter Mungai punches his way to APB Championships

Kenya's Peter Mungai Warui, left, fights China's Bin LV during a men's light flyweight 49-kg preliminary boxing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

National light flyweight champion Peter Mungai of Kenya Police has been promoted to Amateur Professional Boxing Championships by the global governing boxing body, AIBA.

Mungai is the the fourth Kenyan boxer to be promoted. The others are bantamweight Benson Gicharu (Kenya Police), welterweight Rayton Okwiri (Kenya Prisons) and middleweight Nickson Abaka (Kenya Defence Forces).

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