{"id":693228,"date":"2026-05-25T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693228\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:30:15","slug":"miracle-sekeletu-fly-zambian-mma-flag-high-zambia-news-diggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693228\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracle, Sekeletu fly Zambian MMA flag high \u2013 Zambia: News Diggers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMBIAN mixed martial arts is celebrating a historic weekend after Miracle Chipito was crowned Region 5 Sportswoman of the Year and Ken Sekeletu captured the Fight 2 One Featherweight World Championship in Spain. The achievements have drawn widespread praise from MMA Zambia president Henry Shoko, national team head coach Benjamin Bush, and the National Sports Council of Zambia. Shoko described the moment as a proud milestone for Zambian sport, congratulating Sekeletu on becoming a world champion and Chipito for being recognised at both national and regional level. \u201cTo have an athlete from MMA receive recognition at both national and regional level is a major milestone and speaks volumes about the standards our athletes are reaching. Miracle has continuously broken barriers&#8230; <\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZAMBIAN mixed martial arts is celebrating a historic weekend after Miracle Chipito was crowned Region 5 Sportswoman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-693228","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\/693228","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=693228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}