{"id":187940,"date":"2025-10-03T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:39:08","slug":"on-this-day-october-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/187940\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day\u2026 October 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day\u2026 October 3<\/p>\n<p>1972.- In Tokyo, Japan, local fighter Koichi Wajima knocked out Matthew Donovan in the third round. In this fight the WBC super welterweight title was disputed.<\/p>\n<p>1976.- Mexican Miguel Canto defeated Venezuelan Betulio Gonzalez by decision in Caracas, Venezuela. In this fight the WBC flyweight title was disputed.<\/p>\n<p>1981.- At the Ballys Park Place Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, Nicaraguan Alexis Arg\u00fcello defended his WBC lightweight title by knocking out North American Ray Mancini in the 14th round.<\/p>\n<p>1981.- In an attractive fight, Marvin Hagler defended his WBC middleweight title by knocking out Mustapha Hamsho in 11 rounds. The fight took place in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>1998.- American Floyd Mayweather won the WBC super featherweight title by knocking out Genaro Hern\u00e1ndez in the 8th round. The fight took place in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>2015.- Ukrainian Viktor Postol won the WBC super lightweight title by knocking out Argentine Lucas Matthysse in the tenth round. The fight took place in Carson, California.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_165267\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"165267\" 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":"On This Day\u2026 October 3 1972.- In Tokyo, Japan, local fighter Koichi Wajima knocked out Matthew Donovan in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-187940","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\/187940","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=187940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}