{"id":70074,"date":"2014-10-05T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70074\/namibia-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:13:29","slug":"namibia-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/10\/05\/namibia-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exciting Fightstar 9 welcomes Namibian athletes once again, this time seeing three of their skilled amateurs competing on the same night.<\/p>\n<p>Fightstar is scheduled to take place on October 25, at St John&#8217;s Hellenic Hall, corner of Lobeilia and Wychwood roads.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Though Josemare Octavio&#8217;s fight is yet to be announced, his previous fight, at Fightstar 8, was action-packed from beginning to end, after Octavio took victory via technical knockout (TKO) in the first round, over JP Maree.<\/p>\n<p>Armano Steyn faces off against Ettiene Jacobs on the main card of the night.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Both have fought at Fightstar before and both have showcased extreme skill in the cage. At Fightstar 9, these middleweight athletes will be competing to decide who will get a shot at fighting for the number one contender position at FightStar 10.<\/p>\n<p>Iris Rodrigues faces off against Shana Power, bringing the women back to the cage.<\/p>\n<p>Fightstar matchmaker Grant Oliff has already expressed his support for women&#8217;s mixed martial arts (MMA) and said that Fightstar is in full support of helping the women&#8217;s division grow by putting on women fights whenever possible.<\/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='d4ab909d583407c50cf229f44bd1c849'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibian athletes join Fightstar 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[3459,7919,1942,2993,4779,979,2898,2995,5042,5043,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-70074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-amateur-mma","tag-athletes","tag-efc","tag-fightstar","tag-fightstar-9","tag-germiston","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-namibia","tag-namibian-athletes","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Amateur MMA","athletes","efc","Fightstar","Fightstar 9","germiston","mixed martial arts","mma","Namibia","Namibian athletes","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70074","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=70074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}