{"id":239285,"date":"2026-07-22T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakop-to-stage-two-title-fights\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:17:38","slug":"namibia-swakop-to-stage-two-title-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakop-to-stage-two-title-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swakop to Stage Two Title Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Two national title fights will be staged at the coast this weekend when the &#8216;Local is Lekker&#8217; boxing bonanza takes place at Swakopmund on Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In the main bout, Joiy Nangoilo will defend his national bantamweight title against Fabian Lameck over 10 rounds, while Fredrick Nghutenanye takes on Paulus Shonena for the vacant national junior lightweight title in the main curtain-raiser bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">At the launch in Windhoek yesterday, boxing promoter Nestor Tobias said it would be an all-Namibian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607220273.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>Two national title fights will be staged at the coast this weekend when the &#8216;Local is Lekker&#8217; boxing bonanza takes place at Swakopmund on Friday night. In the main bout, Joiy Nangoilo will defend his national bantamweight title against Fabian Lameck over 10 rounds, while Fredrick Nghutenanye takes on Paulus Shonena for the vacant national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8958,4706,724,257,254,4281,21252,6675],"class_list":["post-239285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fights","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-swakop","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239285","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=239285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}