{"id":78768,"date":"2024-10-15T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/energy-stays-relevant"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:39:00","slug":"energy-stays-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/energy-stays-relevant","title":{"rendered":"Energy stays relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Fillipus \u2018Energy\u2019 Nghitumbwa thrust his name into the world-title conversation with an emphatic first-round stoppage of former world champion Yukinori Oguni of Japan in Yokohama on Sunday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The impressive victory leverages the Namibian\u2019s chances of a shot at a super-bantamweight world title, with his rating expected to rise significantly.<\/p>\n<p>He ranks 12th globally, but should move into the top 10 with the Oguni result, which included three knock-downs before the referee halted proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win is very important as it has brought us closer to the world title. It\u2019s not easy to get an opportunity to fight for the world title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did it before and we will do it again. It take long to put someone in that position, but we will get there,\u201d Nghitumbwa\u2019s trainer and promoter, Nestor Tobias, said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Nghitumbwa needed the statement win after falling short on his debut fight abroad in May last year, when he controversially lost the WBO Global super bantamweight strap to Filipino John Riel Casimero by a unanimous decision in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Casimero, who fought to a technical draw with Oguni last October, was on the same card arranged by Treasure Boxing Promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Casimero failed to make weight against American Saul Sanchez in their bout, but the Filipino three-division champion stopped his rival inside the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Both Casimero and Nghitumbwa are angling for a date with Japan\u2019s pound-for-pound king, Naoya \u2018Monster\u2019 Inoue.<\/p>\n<p>Nghitumbwa\u2019s camp indicated they would also like a Casimero rematch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Fillipus \u2018Energy\u2019 Nghitumbwa thrust his name into the world-title conversation with an emphatic first-round stoppage of former world champion Yukinori Oguni of Japan in Yokohama on Sunday. The impressive victory leverages the Namibian\u2019s chances of a shot at a super-bantamweight world title, with his rating expected to rise significantly. He ranks 12th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":78767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-78768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Energy stays relevant - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/energy-stays-relevant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Energy stays relevant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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