{"id":225084,"date":"2026-02-25T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nghitumbwa-to-face-top-colombian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:01:32","slug":"namibia-nghitumbwa-to-face-top-colombian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nghitumbwa-to-face-top-colombian\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nghitumbwa to Face Top Colombian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s WBO global super bantamweight champion Fillipus &#8216;Energy&#8217; Nghitumbwa will take on the highly-rated Colombian, Leonardo Carillo of Colombia in Windhoek on 9 May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nghitumbwa, who has a record of 17 wins and two defeats, is ranked sixth in the world by the influential boxing website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/boxrec.com\" rel=\"noopener\">boxrec.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">He, however, can expect a tough encounter against Carillo, who also has an impressive record of 20 wins, one draw and one defeat, while he is ranked 14th in the world by the World Boxing&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250321.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 WBO global super bantamweight champion Fillipus &#8216;Energy&#8217; Nghitumbwa will take on the highly-rated Colombian, Leonardo Carillo of Colombia in Windhoek on 9 May. Nghitumbwa, who has a record of 17 wins and two defeats, is ranked sixth in the world by the influential boxing website boxrec.com He, however, can expect a tough encounter against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225085,"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":[258,256,50076,7127,4706,724,257,53760,254,7319],"class_list":["post-225084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-colombian","tag-face","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nghitumbwa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/225084","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=225084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}