{"id":77914,"date":"2025-08-18T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:21:12","slug":"on-this-day-august-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77914\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day\u2026 August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day\u2026 August 18<\/p>\n<p>1979.- North American Matthew Saad Muhammad defended his WBC light heavyweight title, defeating British John Coneth. The match took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>1984.- Korean Jungkoo Chang knocked out Japanese Katsuo Tokashiki in the ninth round, defending his WBC light flyweight title. The fight took place in Pohang, Korea.<\/p>\n<p>1985.- In a fight between Mexicans, Guadalupe Pintor defended his WBC super bantamweight title by defeating Juan Meza. The match took place in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>2018.- Nicaraguan Cristofer Rosales defended his WBC flyweight title, defeating Irishman Paddy Barnes. The fight took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_161358\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"161358\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day\u2026 August 18 1979.- North American Matthew Saad Muhammad defended his WBC light heavyweight title, defeating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-77914","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\/77914","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=77914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}