{"id":900197,"date":"2026-09-21T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900197\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:04:17","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-september-21-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900197\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 September 21 \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing\u2026 September 21<\/p>\n<p>1973.- At the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, legendary Cuban-Mexican southpaw Jos\u00e9 \u201cMantequilla\u201d N\u00e1poles put on a boxing clinic to defend his WBC Welterweight World Championship, defeating Canadian challenger Clyde Gray via 15-round unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>1974.- At the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy, Spanish puncher Perico Fern\u00e1ndez captured the WBC Super Lightweight World Title after edging out Japan\u2019s Lion Furuyama via 15-round split decision.<\/p>\n<p>1983.- At the Municipal Stadium in San Jose, California, Puerto Rican star Carlos \u201cSugar\u201d De Le\u00f3n defended his WBC Cruiserweight World Title by stopping tough Mexican contender \u00c1lvaro \u201cYaqui\u201d L\u00f3pez via fourth-round TKO.<\/p>\n<p>1985.- At the Riviera Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, American Bernard Benton became the new WBC Cruiserweight World Champion after defeating fellow countryman Alfonso Ratliff via 12-round unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>1985.- On that same big night in Las Vegas, Nevada, undefeated icon Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez reaffirmed his dominance in the WBC super featherweight division, earning a wide 12-round unanimous decision over brave American contender Dwight Pratchett.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_193647\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"193647\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790003057_632_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 September 21 1973.- At the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, legendary Cuban-Mexican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-900197","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\/900197","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=900197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}