{"id":205080,"date":"2025-08-20T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-nangolo-to-face-bagwasi-in-high-stakes-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:40:57","slug":"namibia-nangolo-to-face-bagwasi-in-high-stakes-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-nangolo-to-face-bagwasi-in-high-stakes-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nangolo to Face Bagwasi in High Stakes Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Namibia&#8217;s undefeated boxing sensation Flame &#8216;Special One&#8217; Nangolo will defend his home turf against Botswana&#8217;s rising star Steve Bagwasi in a thrilling showdown for the WBO Africa Super Featherweight Title on 13 September at the Roman Catholic Hall in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Originally slated to fight Nigeria&#8217;s Rilwan Rawal, Nangolo&#8217;s path to glory has taken a dramatic turn. The late change in opponent has brought a new threat into the spotlight, and it&#8217;s one that Nangolo is not taking lightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;Make no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s undefeated boxing sensation Flame &#8216;Special One&#8217; Nangolo will defend his home turf against Botswana&#8217;s rising star Steve Bagwasi in a thrilling showdown for the WBO Africa Super Featherweight Title on 13 September at the Roman Catholic Hall in Windhoek. Originally slated to fight Nigeria&#8217;s Rilwan Rawal, Nangolo&#8217;s path to glory has taken a dramatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205081,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,45951,2462,7127,4345,6184,4706,20583,257,254,13470],"class_list":["post-205080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bagwasi","tag-botswana-news","tag-face","tag-fight","tag-high","tag-namibia","tag-nangolo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakes"],"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\/205080","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=205080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}