{"id":572789,"date":"2026-03-29T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572789\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:45:12","slug":"on-this-day-miguel-angel-gonzalez-defended-his-wbc-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572789\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Miguel Angel Gonzalez defended his WBC crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Miguel Angel Gonzalez defended his WBC crown<\/p>\n<p>March 29th<\/p>\n<p>1994<\/p>\n<p>Mexican, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, defended his WBC lightweight championship defeating Jean Baptiste Mendy with a fifth round TKO.\u00a0 The clash took place at the Palace Marcel Cardan de Levallois-Perret, France.\u00a0 It abruptly ended at two minutes 49 seconds of the mentioned round, when Referee, Arthur Mercante, stopped the fight. The Judges were Franz Marti, Tom Kaczmarek and Chuck Hassett.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_179284\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"179284\" 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, Miguel Angel Gonzalez defended his WBC crown March 29th 1994 Mexican, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, defended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-572789","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\/572789","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=572789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}