{"id":644692,"date":"2026-05-02T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:17:11","slug":"watch-me-defeat-the-legend-kazuto-ioka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644692\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Watch me defeat the legend Kazuto Ioka\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Inoue will take on former four-division titleholder Kazuto Ioka in his maiden defense, and although the Japanese great may now be 37 years old, he is certainly still a threat. It looked like Ioka\u2019s best years were behind him following back-to-back defeats to Fernando Martinez in 2024 and 2025, but Ioka bounced back with a knockout win over Maikel Ordosgoitti in December to secure his title shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inoue will take on former four-division titleholder Kazuto Ioka in his maiden defense, and although the Japanese great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,311867,85,89832],"class_list":["post-644692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-kazuto-ioka","tag-sports","tag-takuma-inoue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644692","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=644692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}