{"id":512308,"date":"2026-03-01T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512308\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:40:09","slug":"katrina-hurricane-scalzo-packs-a-punch-in-pro-debut-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/512308\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina &#8216;Hurricane&#8217; Scalzo Packs a Punch in Pro Debut | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Katrina Scalzo makes pro-boxing debut\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a3a9da6df5a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>VERONA, N.Y. &#8212; Katrina \u201cHurricane\u201d Scalzo stepped into the ring for her first professional boxing match in front of a supportive hometown crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Scalzo, an elementary school teacher, faced Michelle Cook of Hogansburg, New York, in a four-round super lightweight fight at the Turning Stone Casino Event Center as part of an eight-card championship boxing night.<\/p>\n<p>Scalzo described the experience as overwhelming and said, \u201cThat was so surreal. I felt incredibly blessed and grateful for the support that I have received over the past month and even the past few days. I think it helped make me feel a little more comfortable. It&#8217;s a little bit of a bigger stage than what I&#8217;m used to, but I felt very comfortable once I got into that ring, and then it was game on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">The judges were split on the outcome. The first judge scored the fight for Scalzo, the second for Cook and the third judge ruled it a technical draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VERONA, N.Y. &#8212; Katrina \u201cHurricane\u201d Scalzo stepped into the ring for her first professional boxing match in front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,322,44,85,39],"class_list":["post-512308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512308","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=512308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}