{"id":772525,"date":"2026-07-01T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:23:10","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-july-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/772525\/","title":{"rendered":"On This day in boxing history&#8230;. July 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This day in boxing history\u2026. July 1st<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">1967.- Puerto Rico\u2019s Carlos Ortiz retained his WBC and WBA world lightweight titles by technically knocking out Cuban-born Mexican Ultiminio \u201cSugar\u201d Ramos in 4 rounds, in a highly anticipated rematch at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Ortiz dominated from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">1996.- Filipino Luisito Espinosa successfully defended his WBC featherweight crown by defeating fierce Mexican challenger Cesar \u201cCobrita\u201d Soto via unanimous decision, dictating the distance in a bout that took place at the historic Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Philippines.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">2011.- Thailand\u2019s Pongsaklek Wonjongkam defended his WBC flyweight title by securing a wide unanimous decision victory with scores of 118-110, 117-111, and 116-112 over Japan\u2019s Takuya Kogawa, controlling the pace with his southpaw stance in a fight held in Songkhla, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_187270\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"187270\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764343693_289_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This day in boxing history\u2026. July 1st 1967.- Puerto Rico\u2019s Carlos Ortiz retained his WBC and WBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-772525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772525","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=772525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}