{"id":871712,"date":"2026-08-28T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:46:21","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-august-28-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871712\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 August 28 \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 August 28<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">1976 | Carlos Z\u00e1rate vs. Paul Ferreri (Inglewood, California)<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Legendary Mexican knockout artist Carlos \u201cCa\u00f1as\u201d Z\u00e1rate successfully retained his WBC Bantamweight World Championship by stopping tough Italian contender Paul Ferreri in the 12th round at the iconic Forum in Inglewood. At the absolute peak of his punching power, Z\u00e1rate imposed his lethal attack in a hard-fought contest against a courageous Ferreri before breaking him down late.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">1997 | Ricardo \u201cFinito\u201d L\u00f3pez vs. Alex \u201cNene\u201d S\u00e1nchez (New York)<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">In a high-profile clash at Madison Square Garden in New York, unbeaten Mexican master Ricardo \u201cFinito\u201d L\u00f3pez put on a masterclass of technique and precision, knocking out Puerto Rico\u2019s Alex \u201cNene\u201d S\u00e1nchez in the fifth round. With this brilliant performance, L\u00f3pez unified and defended his WBC Strawweight World Championship, further cementing his status as one of the most dominant pound-for-pound fighters of his era.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">2009 | Pongsaklek Wonjongkam vs. Takahisa Masuda (Chiang Mai, Thailand)<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">Fighting in front of his home crowd in Chiang Mai, Thai legend Pongsaklek Wonjongkam captured the WBC Interim Flyweight World Championship with a sixth-round technical knockout victory over Japan\u2019s Takahisa Masuda. Wonjongkam displayed his trademark tactical superiority and relentless output to convincingly outclass his challenger and reassert his dominance over the division.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_191832\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"191832\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 August 28 1976 | Carlos Z\u00e1rate vs. Paul Ferreri (Inglewood, California) Legendary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-871712","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\/871712","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=871712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}