{"id":676523,"date":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:27:16","slug":"rolando-dy-kos-paulie-malignaggi-retains-bkb-super-welterweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676523\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolando Dy KOs Paulie Malignaggi, retains BKB super welterweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  Published  May 17, 2026 1:19pm  <br \/> Updated  May 17, 2026 1:22pm  <\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=gmanetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gma-preferred-source-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">  Add GMA on Google <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. <\/p>\n<p>Filipino bareknuckle boxing champion Rolando Dy knocked out Paulie Malignaggi to retain his BKB super welterweight title at BKB 54: Mayhem in Manchester on Sunday (Philippine time) at the AO Arena in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p>Dy needed just two rounds to dispatch the former two-division world boxing champion.<\/p>\n<p>Just five seconds into the second round, Dy connected with a crushing left hook-right straight combination that sent Malignaggi crashing to the canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Italian-American veteran managed to beat the count, Dy immediately swarmed him with a follow-up barrage. This time, Malignaggi stayed down as the referee completed the count.<\/p>\n<p>The emphatic victory improved Dy\u2019s bareknuckle boxing record to 6-1 with five knockouts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/boxing\/986122\/rolando-dy-opens-up-on-estranged-dad-rolando-navarrete-i-don-t-hate-him\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dy, the son of Filipino boxing legend Rolando Navarrete<\/a>, also secured the first successful defense of the title he captured last December.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JKC, GMA News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 17, 2026 1:19pm Updated May 17, 2026 1:22pm Add GMA on Google Make this your preferred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,326074,802,16966,232061,85],"class_list":["post-676523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bkb-bare-knuckle-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-paulie-malignaggi","tag-rolando-dy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676523","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=676523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}