{"id":588512,"date":"2026-04-06T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:50:10","slug":"zuffa-boxing-05-andres-cortes-eases-to-points-win-over-eridson-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588512\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing 05: Andres Cortes eases to points win over Eridson Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big brother and trainer Luie Cortes passionately walked him through matters, though by the fifth, they just needed to stave off complacency after referee Thomas Taylor deducted <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/1SxLMf9rh0RFBtIkuA7u6X\">Garcia<\/a> a point for excessive holding in the fourth.Staying defensively sharp to avoid the same fate <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/reito-tsutsumi-stops-leobardo-quintana-in-4-eridson-garcia-upsets-taiga-imanaga-7nsYC4LdnMITNjx9Pvxxjd\">then-unbeaten Japanese contender Taiga Imanaga suffered in December<\/a>, the 28-year-old did exactly that against a pre-betting favorite who couldn&#8217;t find his rhythm. That was painfully obvious through nine minutes, with just 23 punches connected by both, though that low-output suited Cortes (25-0, 13 KOs) as he punched into range and forward pressure is often given more credit by judges.<\/p>\n<p>By the end, Garcia (23-2, 14 KOs) had thrown 387 total punches and landed almost 30 less (95-67) as the Las Vegas native could bask in the joy of proving more critics wrong after entering this contest a slight underdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big brother and trainer Luie Cortes passionately walked him through matters, though by the fifth, they just needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[90965,64,63,802,232239,1920,28778,6654,85,2974],"class_list":{"0":"post-588512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-object-object","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-boxing-articles","13":"tag-boxing-news","14":"tag-lightweight","15":"tag-results","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-the-ring"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588512","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=588512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}