{"id":48722,"date":"2013-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/48722\/fearless-goes-internationalorfearless-fighters-take-on-the-efcor\/"},"modified":"2013-11-18T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:07:43","slug":"fearless-goes-internationalorfearless-fighters-take-on-the-efcor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/11\/18\/fearless-goes-internationalorfearless-fighters-take-on-the-efcor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless goes international"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fearless Kickboxing Fitness gym were represented by two fighters, Bernardo &#8220;The Black Panther&#8221; Mikixi and Igeu Kabesa, at the 25th edition of the Extreme Fighting Championships (EFC), on November 7, at the Grandwest Grand Arena, in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>This was exciting for the Primrose-based gym, because it was their first appearance in the EFC and they were blown away by the excellent performances of both fighters.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mikixi is a heavyweight fighter who took on Brendon Groenewald at EFC25, and won the three-round bout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fight was easy for me because I trained very hard and I can confidently say that I am ready to fight anyone, anytime and anywhere,&#8221; said Mikixi.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The multiple South African wrestling champion, &#8220;Smiley&#8221; Kabesa, also made his EFC debut and was awarded Fight of the Night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been wrestling for 11 years now; this was my first professional fight and I consider it one of my toughest fights, it was very tense but I was able to handle it,&#8221; said Kabesa.<\/p>\n<p>Among other accolades, Kabesa holds the Amateur Fight League (AFL) title, Cape Town Fight League (CFL) and is a 10 times Wrestling Nationals Champion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud of our fighters; they worked hard and put on good fights,&#8221; said one of the coaches, Shane Labuschagne.<\/p>\n<p>The gym has recently partnered with Chivalry Blood Sport, and serves as a training camp for all Chivalry Blood Sports&#8217; fighters.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Francois Kabulu, Alain Ilunga and other professional fighters are scheduled to start training at the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Fearless Kickboxing Fitness also welcomes anyone interested in joining.<\/p>\n<p>There is training every Monday to Friday, from 5pm to 8pm, and on Saturday mornings, from 8am to 10am, at the Primrose Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3498327ae8564a1191c4243b38616bf7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fearless fighter&#8217;s take on the EFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1942,2223,2224,2219,2221,979,2222,1000,2220,1724],"class_list":["post-48722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-efc","tag-efc25","tag-efc26","tag-extreme-fighting-championships","tag-fearless-kickboxing-fitness-gym","tag-germiston","tag-kickboxing","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-sports-complex","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["efc","EFC25","EFC26","extreme fighting championships","Fearless Kickboxing Fitness gym","germiston","kickboxing","primrose","Primrose Sports Complex","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}