AfriFite

Live Professional Boxing is coming to Meru. The first live professional boxing event in Meru history and the biggest boxing event in Kenya history will be held on March 16, 2024 at the Kinoru Stadium. 

Lion Heart Boxing Productions, in association with Alpha Charlie Solutions, a company owned by female trailblazer Caroline Gikunda, and Office Inn Bar and Grill, Meru, Kenya’s top purveyor of F&B, will bring world-class live professional boxing to Meru by producing a version of the acclaimed AfriFite Fights fightseries (AfriFite). The event, AfriFite 2: Shujaa Wa Mashujaa, will be promoted as a family entertainment extravaganza and will feature British boxing superstar Lee McAllister against Tanzania’s Amos Mwamkula (19-6). Lee McAllister (48-3), nicknamed the "Aberdeen Assassin”, is a Scottish boxer and 2-time Commonwealth champion (Light Welter and Lightweight) with over 19 world titles, including the IBO International light-welterweight. Further, McAllister is one of a few five-class world champions in history. On July 22, 2018, McAllister moved up 5 weight classes to defeat Danny Williams, who had beaten Mike Tyson, in eerily similar fashion. McAllister dominated Williams and KO'd him in the 10th to become the only Lightweight boxer ever to move up to heavyweight (5 weight classes) and win a title at heavyweight.

The Co-Main event will feature Harry Simon, Jr.: The Boy King. Rising star and Windhoek resident Harry Simon, Jr. (21-1) is the son of Harry Simon, a two-time world champion who is considered one the best middleweights of all time, as well as one of the top ten boxer to come out of Africa. Junior is the hottest boxing prospect in Africa and seeks to surpass his dad’s legacy and off to great start. He has a single loss in 22 fights, a controversial decision in Zimbabwe that is disputed and is currently working its way through the ZNBWCB dispute process. Junior is the tallest light welterweight in history and ties the shares the record of tallest Welterweight in history with Paul Williams and Mark Breeland. At only 26 years of age and an exciting boxer in the ring, Junior’s career will be special. His opponent will be announced soon.

As it is always with AfriFite, the March 16th event will feature exciting fighters on the undercard, including Kenyan top stars: Meru’s own Charity Mukami (5-4), top prospect Martin Achebi (4-0), and the most famous of Kenyan boxers today in a Daniel Wanyonyi (29-14).

The event will be televised in the USA in over 125 million homes and syndicated worldwide, as feasible. 

The event venue is the largest and most beautiful stadium in Meru, the historic Kinoru Stadium, the center of sports in Meru, Kenya. The venue seats over 30,000 seats but there is not a single bad seat in the house. 

 Doors open at Noon, 12:00 P.M. and the first fight starts at 3:00 PM.