{"id":199160,"date":"2025-05-31T00:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-heita-to-fight-carrington\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T00:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:58:53","slug":"namibia-heita-to-fight-carrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-heita-to-fight-carrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Heita to Fight Carrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><em>Mateus &#8220;The Beast&#8221; Heita is set to compete on boxing&#8217;s world stage when he takes on the Bruce Carrington of the United States for the vacant WBC Interim World title. This mega showdown is scheduled for the 26 July 2025 at Madison Square Gardens in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">This announcement was officially made by Top Rank today much to the delight of MTC Nestor Sunshine Promotions and Heita who had this to say:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;I have proven to the world that I am a world-class boxer and facing the best has always been my&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mateus &#8220;The Beast&#8221; Heita is set to compete on boxing&#8217;s world stage when he takes on the Bruce Carrington of the United States for the vacant WBC Interim World title. This mega showdown is scheduled for the 26 July 2025 at Madison Square Gardens in New York. This announcement was officially made by Top Rank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,51484,4345,51483,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-199160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carrington","tag-fight","tag-heita","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}