{"id":814709,"date":"2026-07-21T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814709\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:30:08","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-july-21st-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814709\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 21st \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 21st<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">1982.- Mexico\u2019s Salvador S\u00e1nchez knocked out Ghana\u2019s Azumah Nelson in the 15th round to defend his WBC featherweight title. The historic bout took place in New York. Tragically, this would be S\u00e1nchez\u2019s final fight.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">1990.- American Julian Jackson defended his WBA super welterweight title by defeating tough contender Ron Amundsen via decision, in a bout held in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">2000.- Spain\u2019s Javier Castillejo defended his WBC super welterweight title by decisioning Tony Marshall. The fight took place in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">2001.- American Shane Mosley defended his WBC welterweight title by knocking out Britain\u2019s Adrian Stone in the third round, in a bout held in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">2007.- Venezuela\u2019s Jorge Linares knocked out Mexico\u2019s Oscar Larios in the 10th round in Las Vegas, Nevada. The vacant WBC featherweight title was on the line.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">2007.- On the same card in Las Vegas, Nevada, Germany\u2019s Arthur Abraham defended his IBF middleweight title by knocking out Canada\u2019s S\u00e9bastien Demers in the seventh round.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">2018.- Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk defended his WBC cruiserweight title and became the undisputed champion by defeating Russia\u2019s Murat Gassiev by decision. The bout took place in Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 21st 1982.- Mexico\u2019s Salvador S\u00e1nchez knocked out Ghana\u2019s Azumah Nelson in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-814709","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\/814709","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=814709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}