{"id":757195,"date":"2026-06-24T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757195\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:48:12","slug":"nelson-asofa-solomona-vs-george-burgess-boxing-fight-2026-live-updates-storm-legend-stops-burgess-in-third-round-liam-paro-vs-lewis-crocker-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757195\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Asofa-Solomona vs George Burgess Boxing Fight 2026 LIVE updates: ; Storm legend stops Burgess in third round; Liam Paro vs Lewis Crocker world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIAM PARO IS THE NEW IBF WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION!!!<\/p>\n<p>The judges score it 115-113 in favour of the Australian. <\/p>\n<p>An amazing moment for Paro, who is overcome with emotion as he etches his name into the history books alongside Jeff Fenech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means everything, it\u2019s a long hard road &#8211; I climbed the mountain once and I did it again &#8230; man, I\u2019m speechless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long f&#8212;&#8211;g road. I had so many people telling me I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paro becomes the second male Aussie boxer to capture world titles in two different weight classes after Fenech in the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/af11aef84dbd2e0b86d011c6f156d7ed13ac2c1ea7a822e0737402ea959087dc.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Liam Paro celebrates his world title victory.\u00a0Kayo Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIAM PARO IS THE NEW IBF WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION!!! The judges score it 115-113 in favour of the Australian.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-757195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757195","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=757195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}