{"id":209459,"date":"2025-10-13T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:36:10","slug":"shoko-is-new-mma-zambia-president-zambia-news-diggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209459\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoko is new MMA Zambia president \u2013 Zambia: News Diggers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIXED Martial Arts (MMA) Zambia has ushered in new leadership following a landslide victory by Henry Shoko, who defeated Alpha Kafumbwe by 53 votes to nine, with one spoiled ballot, during the federation\u2019s elective Annual General Meeting held on Saturday. In a statement released after the elections, MMA Zambia said Shoko\u2019s victory \u201creflects the strong confidence that the membership has placed in his leadership, integrity, and vision for the continued growth of Mixed Martial Arts in Zambia.\u201d The federation described the election as transparent and orderly, noting that the outcome represents the collective will of the MMA community. Outgoing president Benjamin Bush, who opted not to seek re-election, gave an emotional farewell speech highlighting the federation\u2019s journey since its founding&#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIXED Martial Arts (MMA) Zambia has ushered in new leadership following a landslide victory by Henry Shoko, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-209459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459","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=209459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}