{"id":606484,"date":"2026-04-14T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:14","slug":"thanongsak-simsri-knocks-out-sergio-mendoza-to-defend-ibf-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606484\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanongsak Simsri knocks out Sergio Mendoza to defend IBF belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">IBF light flyweight champion Thanongsak Simsri defended his title in dramatic fashion this morning, knocking out undefeated Sergio \u201cYoreme\u201d Mendoza at Korakuen Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mendoza somehow made it to his feet, but was in no condition to continue, giving Simsri the knockout victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Thai standout, still just 25, has now won six fights on Japanese soil since his lone career loss to Masamichi Yabuki in 2022. Though only one light flyweight belt is in Japanese hands, namely Shokichi Iwata\u2019s WBC title, unified champion Rene Santiago has also become a regular in the Land of the Rising Sun. Let\u2019s hope we see any two of those three share a ring in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IBF light flyweight champion Thanongsak Simsri defended his title in dramatic fashion this morning, knocking out undefeated Sergio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2986,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-606484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-results","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606484","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=606484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}