{"id":259957,"date":"2025-11-03T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:44:11","slug":"on-this-day-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259957\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day\u2026 November 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Day\u2026 November 3<\/p>\n<p>1979.- At the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotsman Jim Watt defended his WBC lightweight title by knocking out American Roberto Vazquez in the ninth round.<\/p>\n<p>1984.- Mexican Jos\u00e9 Luis Ram\u00edrez won the WBC lightweight title by knocking out Puerto Rican Edwin Rosario in the fourth round, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>1984.- At the Midtown Neighborhood Center in Kingston, New York, Mexican Juan Meza knocked out American Jaime Garza in the first round, defending his WBC super bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p>2001.- In Hansehalle, Luebeck, Germany, Cuban Juan Carlos G\u00f3mez defended his WBC cruise title by knocking out Italian Pietro Aurino in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>2001.- Australian Kostya Tszyu defended his WBC super lightweight title by knocking out North American Zab Judah in the second round. The fight took place in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>2007.- Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez defended his WBC super featherweight title by defeating North American Rocky Juarez by decision, in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>2007.- British Joe Calzaghe won the WBC super middleweight title by defeating Dane Mikkel Kessler by decision. The fight took place at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n<p>2012.- In Sendai, Japan, local fighter Shinsuken Yamanaka knocked out Mexican Tomas Rojas in the seventh round. In this fight the WBC bantamweight title was disputed.<\/p>\n<p>2018.- In combat between Mexican warriors, Miguel Berchelt defended his WBC super featherweight title by knocking out Miguel Roman in the ninth round. The fight took place in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_167982\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"167982\" 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 November 3 1979.- At the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotsman Jim Watt defended his WBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-259957","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\/259957","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=259957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}