{"id":209527,"date":"2025-10-11T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-our-boxers-need-international-training-to-elevate-their-game-ex-boxer-shimbuli\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:40:02","slug":"namibia-our-boxers-need-international-training-to-elevate-their-game-ex-boxer-shimbuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-our-boxers-need-international-training-to-elevate-their-game-ex-boxer-shimbuli\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Our Boxers Need International Training to Elevate Their Game &#8211; Ex-Boxer Shimbuli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>Samuel Shimbuli is a name deep-rooted in the archives of Namibian boxing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Inspired by the late legend Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) who was considered as the world&#8217;s greatest boxer, Shimbuli packed dynamite in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;I want to be remembered as a lightweight champion who fought for R\u00f6ssing Uranium Boxing Club and I won my senior boxing championships in 1981,&#8221; he tells <em>The Namibian Sport<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;My boxing style was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100166.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>Samuel Shimbuli is a name deep-rooted in the archives of Namibian boxing. Inspired by the late legend Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) who was considered as the world&#8217;s greatest boxer, Shimbuli packed dynamite in his right hand. &#8220;I want to be remembered as a lightweight champion who fought for R\u00f6ssing Uranium Boxing Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209528,"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":[258,256,8781,10667,52545,8500,4337,4706,724,257,52546,254,4287],"class_list":["post-209527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boxers","tag-elevate","tag-exboxer","tag-game","tag-international","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shimbuli","tag-south-africa-today","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\/209527","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=209527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}