{"id":859729,"date":"2026-08-18T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:00:10","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-august-18th-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859729\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 August 18th \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing\u2026 August 18th<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">1979.- American Matthew Saad Muhammad made the first successful defense of his WBC light heavyweight title, defeating Britain\u2019s John Conteh by unanimous decision in a memorable and grueling 15-round battle. The thrilling contest took place at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">1984.- Legendary South Korean fighter Jung-Koo Chang successfully defended his WBC light flyweight title by knocking out tough Japanese challenger Katsuo Tokashiki in the ninth round. The action-packed bout took place at the Pohang Gymnasium in Pohang, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">1985.- In an all-Mexican clash of the highest caliber, the historic Guadalupe Pintor captured the WBC super bantamweight crown by dethroning Mexican-American champion Juan \u201cKid\u201d Meza via 12-round unanimous decision, after sending him to the canvas twice. The fight took place before a packed crowd at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">2018.- Nicaragua\u2019s Cristofer Rosales convincingly defended his WBC flyweight title, knocking out local idol Paddy Barnes of Ireland with a devastating body hook in the fourth round. The fight took place at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_190913\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"190913\" 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\u2026 August 18th 1979.- American Matthew Saad Muhammad made the first successful defense of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-859729","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\/859729","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=859729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}