{"id":200631,"date":"2025-06-21T13:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mma-fighters-step-up-training-for-abu-dhabi-tourney\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:41:48","slug":"namibia-mma-fighters-step-up-training-for-abu-dhabi-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mma-fighters-step-up-training-for-abu-dhabi-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MMA Fighters Step Up Training for Abu Dhabi Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Namibia&#8217;s mixed martial arts (MMA) team has intensified preparations as they gear up for the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Youth World Championships in Abu Dhabi from 21-27 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This year&#8217;s event is set to be the biggest youth amateur MMA event in history, welcoming young athletes from around the globe to compete for the prestige of IMMAF gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to the coach, the fighters are currently undergoing rigorous training sessions aimed at sharpening their skills and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200509.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>Namibia&#8217;s mixed martial arts (MMA) team has intensified preparations as they gear up for the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) Youth World Championships in Abu Dhabi from 21-27 July. This year&#8217;s event is set to be the biggest youth amateur MMA event in history, welcoming young athletes from around the globe to compete for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200632,"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":[11554,258,256,16479,8470,32580,4706,724,257,254,5165,7021,4287],"class_list":["post-200631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-abu","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dhabi","tag-fighters","tag-mma","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-tourney","tag-training"],"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\/200631","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=200631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}