{"id":510698,"date":"2026-03-01T00:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:05:12","slug":"fights-that-lived-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510698\/","title":{"rendered":"Fights that lived up to the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Perceived as a battle of two boogeymen. Martinez, a brilliant, untraditional boxer, was taking on tough opposition, and Williams, originally a welterweight, moved up to middleweight seeking the biggest fights possible. The first fight between the two was a classic, with Williams winning a heavily debated decision. The rematch left no doubt: Martinez would knock out Williams in two rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perceived as a battle of two boogeymen. Martinez, a brilliant, untraditional boxer, was taking on tough opposition, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,18275,30027,60999,87391,150596,23903,7704,85,103377,8691],"class_list":{"0":"post-510698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-canelo","13":"tag-conor-benn","14":"tag-deontay-wilder","15":"tag-eduardo-nunez","16":"tag-emanuel-navarrete","17":"tag-gennady-golovkin","18":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-teofimo-lopez","21":"tag-tyson-fury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510698","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=510698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}