{"id":499348,"date":"2026-02-23T18:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499348\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:43:18","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-february-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499348\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 February 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing\u2026 February 23rd<\/p>\n<p>1969.- Mexican Efren \u201cAlacran\u201d Torres defeated Thai Chartchai Chionoi by technical knockout in 8 rounds, to win the WBC flyweight title, in a fight held at Cuatro Caminos Arena, in the State of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>1985.- Michael Spinks knocked out David Sears in the fourth round in Atlantic City, New Jersey. With this win he defended his WBC light heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>1991.- Pernell Whitaker defended his WBC lightweight title defeating Anthony Jones by decision, in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>2002.- Korean Yosam Choi knocked out Japanese Shingo Yamaguchi in 10 rounds, defending his WBC light flyweight title. The bout took place at the Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>2019.- American Anthony Dirrell conquered WBC super middleweight title, defeating Turkish Avni Yildirim by technical decision in 10 rounds, in a fight held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_176655\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"176655\" 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":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 February 23rd 1969.- Mexican Efren \u201cAlacran\u201d Torres defeated Thai Chartchai Chionoi by technical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-499348","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\/499348","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=499348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}