[3][4] He won a silver medal during the fourth All-Africa amateur boxing championships held in Lusaka in 1968, losing the welterweight final to Cameroon’s Joseph Bessala.
[4] Luipa switched to the light middleweight division for the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and took home a silver medal, after losing to Scotsman Tom Imrie in the final, and this helped him win the Zambian Sportsman of the Year award for 1970.
"[6] In 1971, he was again sponsored by the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa to attend a trainers’ course in West Germany for six months and the following year, he won a silver medal at a tournament in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and was the only Zambian to take part in the East and Central African Championship in Uganda.
[7][8] He won a gold medal and described the championships as ‘tough but enjoyable.’[7] Luipa was once again selected to represent Zambia at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, this time as a middleweight.
[10] Nicknamed Juju Man, not, because of a connection to black magic as the name implies, but the iteration of the first syllable of his first name, Luipa turned professional soon after the Commonwealth Games as a middleweight under Pius Kakungu Stables.
[1][13] Luipa blamed an injury to his wrist and a pulled muscle in his left arm for the defeat, and promised to win back his title after treatment.
[13] Luipa later admitted that he was no longer the same after this fight as he subsequently sank into depression, which was made worse by his friends back in Chingola mocking him over the loss.
“Each time I take cooked food I suffer from indigestion so my proper diet now is dry buns and water,” he disclosed to the Zambia Daily Mail.
[14] Exhibition bouts whose proceeds would be given to him were mooted and a charity drive improved his circumstances somewhat as he eventually moved back into his own house in Chingola where he faded into obscurity.