{"id":181227,"date":"2025-10-01T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:05:08","slug":"ricardo-sandoval-crowned-wbc-world-champion-by-president-mauricio-sulaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sandoval Crowned WBC World Champion by President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Sandoval Crowned WBC World Champion by President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new WBC flyweight world champion, Ricardo Sandoval, was honored at Martes de Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Sandoval captured the WBC flyweight world title by defeating\u00a0 Japanese star Kenshiro Teraji via SD in Yokohama this July. With this victory, the California fighter reached the top of his division and fulfilled one of his greatest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>A video highlighting his career was also presented.<\/p>\n<p>Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n expressed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great honor for me to have our champion here. We are so proud to welcome you and present your world championship belt. I want to close this celebration of Ricardo Sandoval by asking the best of the smaller divisions, Humberto \u2018Chiquita\u2019 Gonz\u00e1lez, and vice versa, to acknowledge each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the belt presented to Sandoval\u2019s trainer, Sulaim\u00e1n explained:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an award created by my father for trainers. The fighter is the one who takes the belt, but you represent so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandoval shared his gratitude:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the invitation, it is very special to be here. This work has taken many years. I thank you Golden Boy for letting me fight for my dreams, my manager for always looking out for me, and my trainer, who has been with me from the very beginning\u2014we\u2019ve been together for 16 years, everything I know is thanks to him. I also thank my parents for giving me the chance to be in this sport, they always supported me, and it\u2019s an honor to bring them this belt. Now we are two-time world champions. This has been years of hard work, and I always had faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His trainer added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRicardo always wanted to be WBC champion. When he found out the WBC also had a belt for trainers, he told me we had to go after both of those belts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_165039\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"165039\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sandoval Crowned WBC World Champion by President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n \u00a0 The new WBC flyweight world champion, Ricardo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-181227","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\/181227","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=181227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}