{"id":283772,"date":"2025-11-14T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:50:10","slug":"steve-butler-hammers-out-ninth-round-tko-of-stephane-fondjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283772\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Butler hammers out ninth-round TKO of Stephane Fondjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Butler, a two-time world title challenger from Montreal, got off to a hot start, scoring a knockdown to establish an early lead. Fondjo, who was fighting for the fourth time in Canada, was not easily deterred, storming back in the second round with activity that kept Butler honest. After a less convincing knockdown in which Fondjo\u2019s knees were ruled down, Fondjo began to take over the fight in the middle rounds, testing Butler\u2019s chin with strong right hands. With the fight\u2019s outcome hanging in the balance, Butler once more dropped Fondjo in the eighth before finishing matters a round later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Butler, a two-time world title challenger from Montreal, got off to a hot start, scoring a knockdown to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,163954,163957,85,163953,163952,163956,163955],"class_list":{"0":"post-283772","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-jhon-orobio","12":"tag-petr-novak","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stephane-fondjo","15":"tag-steven-butler","16":"tag-wyatt-sanford","17":"tag-xolisani-ndongeni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283772","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=283772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}