{"id":245693,"date":"2025-10-28T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:58:07","slug":"australias-the-removalist-to-take-on-ravalaca-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245693\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s \u2018The Removalist\u2019 to take on Ravalaca \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ravalaca-n-chua.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Francis &#8220;The Removalist&#8221; Chua [right] and Mikaele Ravalaca<\/p>\n<p>Francis \u201cThe Removalist\u201d Chua will take on local professional boxer Mikaele Ravalaca for the WBA Oceania Light Weight Title in the Stratum Construction Zeg Kings Boxing Promotion this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chua is an Australian professional boxer who fights in the lightweight and super featherweight divisions.<\/p>\n<p>39-year-old Chua took up boxing in his 30s and made his professional debut in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, Chua defeated highly-rated prospect Kye MacKenzie by split decision in a major upset.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Chua had only six professional fights, while MacKenzie was ranked second by the WBO and considered one of Australia\u2019s most promising boxers.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, Chua defeated China\u2019s Xiaotao Su at Thunderdome 50 to win the WBC Australasia Silver Lightweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Promotion will be held at the Vodafone Arena in Suva.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can catch all the action live on FBC\u2019s online platform www.viti.plus for $99 FJD.<\/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":"Francis &#8220;The Removalist&#8221; Chua [right] and Mikaele Ravalaca Francis \u201cThe Removalist\u201d Chua will take on local professional boxer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-245693","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\/245693","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=245693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}