{"id":408728,"date":"2026-01-12T17:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408728\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:59:10","slug":"agit-kabayel-revives-germanys-golden-era-of-boxing-with-another-impressive-ko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408728\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Agit Kabayel Revives Germany\u2019s Golden Era of Boxing with another impressive KO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Agit Kabayel Revives Germany\u2019s Golden Era of Boxing with another impressive KO<\/p>\n<p>OBERHAUSEN, Germany \u2013 On a historic night reminiscent of the Klitschko brothers\u2019 cresting peak, undefeated Agit Kabayel successfully defended his WBC Interim Heavyweight title, by hastily defeating Poland\u2019s Damian Knyba via technical knockout in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>The event, featuring impeccable organization by Queensberry, packed the Rudolf Weber Arena with over 14,000 fans, consolidating the resurgence of elite boxing on German soil.<\/p>\n<p>Despite suffering a cut over his right eye in the first round, Kabayel demonstrated his class, patience, persistence and dominance. In the second and third rounds, the local idol unleashed a devastating torrent that forced referee Mark Lyson to stop the fight, due to the severe punishment Knyba was on the receiving end of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready for Usyk,\u201d Kabayel declared after the fight. \u201cI\u2019ve waited a long time for this world title opportunity. Give me the fight, I\u2019m ready.\u201d With this victory, Kabayel improves his record to 27-0 (19 KOs). The fight supervisor was WBC Vice President, Houcine Houichi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agit3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"377\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/agit2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_173662\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"173662\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764343693_289_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Agit Kabayel Revives Germany\u2019s Golden Era of Boxing with another impressive KO OBERHAUSEN, Germany \u2013 On a historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-408728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408728","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=408728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}