{"id":209199,"date":"2025-10-13T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209199\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:56:10","slug":"oceania-nations-gather-in-fiji-for-inaugural-boxing-congress-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209199\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceania nations gather in Fiji for inaugural Boxing Congress \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oceania-nations-gather-in-Fiji-for-inaugural-Boxing-Congress.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Member countries of World Boxing convened over the weekend at the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee headquarters in Suva for the inaugural Oceania Boxing Confederation Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The primary aims of the Congress were to adopt the confederation\u2019s official statutes and elect a new Board to lead the organisation\u2019s development across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by the Fiji Amateur Boxing Association and began with a traditional kava ceremony to welcome delegates.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>One of the key topics discussed was the importance of increasing female participation in boxing throughout the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress also emphasised the broader benefits of the sport, including the development of self-discipline, resilience, and core values.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Member countries of World Boxing convened over the weekend at the Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-209199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}