{"id":208762,"date":"2025-10-02T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mma-angola-advances-to-world-finals-with-four-athletes\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:13:51","slug":"angola-mma-angola-advances-to-world-finals-with-four-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mma-angola-advances-to-world-finals-with-four-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: MMA &#8211; Angola Advances to World Finals With Four Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Luanda \u2014 Angola&#8217;s national mixed martial arts (MMA) team secured four spots in the finals on Tuesday at the World Championships, which conclude on Thursday in Tbilisi, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This achievement improves Angola&#8217;s standing in World Championship finals and reinforces its status as an emerging reference in the sport on the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">The finalists are Milfa Nicolau, who will face Ukraine&#8217;s Denys Kozora in the up-to-88.4-kilogram category; Nadir Vieira, who will face Altanchimeg Baigalmaa of Mongolia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020500.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola&#8217;s national mixed martial arts (MMA) team secured four spots in the finals on Tuesday at the World Championships, which conclude on Thursday in Tbilisi, Georgia. This achievement improves Angola&#8217;s standing in World Championship finals and reinforces its status as an emerging reference in the sport on the continent. The finalists are Milfa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208763,"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":[4262],"tags":[7692,258,256,3941,4263,7884,9777,32580,257,254,5093],"class_list":["post-208762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-advances","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-athletes","tag-finals","tag-mma","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/208762","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=208762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}