{"id":162002,"date":"2025-09-22T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162002\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:42:12","slug":"legacy-night-2025-a-historic-event-in-san-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162002\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Night 2025, A Historic Event in San Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy Night 2025, A Historic Event in San Salvador<\/p>\n<p>The Legacy Night 2025 fight car this weekend at the Jos\u00e9 Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium in San Salvador, was a landmark event for the region.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time El Salvador hosted such a major event sanctioned by the World Boxing Council. All the regional WBC fights were supervised by the organization\u2019s General Secretary, Robert Lendhardt of the United States, and the president of FECARBOX and WBC Vice President, Alberto Guerra of Panama.<\/p>\n<p>WBC President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n sent a message celebrating the event\u2019s success: \u201cEl Salvador has shown that it can host top-level events. Tonight is now written in the history of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd responded enthusiastically, with a massive turnout that buzzed with excitement from the first preliminary fights to the main event.<\/p>\n<p>Fight Card Results<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley \u201cThe Black Lion\u201d Ibeh was crowned the World Boxing Council Fecarbox heavyweight champion after defeating veteran American Gerald Washington by technical knockout in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>From the opening bell, the Nigerian fighter took control with an aggressive but calculated style. With faster hands and a higher work rate, he forced Washington to constantly retreat.<\/p>\n<p>The end came at the beginning of the third round. After measuring the distance with his jab, Ibeh landed a powerful left hand directly to Washington\u2019s head, sending him to the canvas. Although the Californian bravely got back on his feet, the referee decided he was not in a condition to continue and stopped the fight, declaring Ibeh the winner by TKO.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s Andrey Bonilla knocked out his countryman Isaac Barrag\u00e1n to capture the WBC Fecarbox Bantamweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In a heavyweight bout, Alexander Flores of the United States defeated Juan Torres.<\/p>\n<p>In the super flyweight division, undefeated Ari Bonilla of Mexico won by decision against his countryman Asbel Bolaina, improving his record to 5-0 and capturing the Fecarbox super flyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Nicaragua\u2019s Nilo Guerrero defeated Panama\u2019s William Vargas by knockout to win the WBC Fecarbox super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p>American Austin Brooks dominated and won by unanimous decision against Nicaragua\u2019s Maxwell Montez to claim the WBC Continental Americas super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/san-salv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"640\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/san-salv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"606\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_164282\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"164282\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legacy Night 2025, A Historic Event in San Salvador The Legacy Night 2025 fight car this weekend at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-162002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}