{"id":39624,"date":"2025-08-01T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39624\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:19:08","slug":"on-this-day-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39624\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day\u2026 August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day\u2026 August 1<\/p>\n<p>1976.- At the Busan Stadium in South Korea, Panamanian Rigoberto Riasco defended his WBC super bantamweight title, defeating Korean Dong Kyun Yum by decision.<\/p>\n<p>1987.- Mike Tyson defended his WBC heavyweight title by defeating Tony Tucker by decision. The match took place in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>1988.- Colombian Miguel \u201cHappy\u201d Lora defended his WBC bantamweight title by defeating American Alberto Davila by decision. The match took place at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n<p>1992.- Mexican Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez knocked out American Frankie Mitchell in the fourth round, defending his WBC super lightweight title. The fight took place in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>1994.- Russian Yuri Arvachakov knocked out Hugo Soto in the eighth round, in Tokyo, Japan. The WBC flyweight title was on the line in this bout.<\/p>\n<p>2009.-American Devon Alexander knocked out British Junior Witter in 8 rounds at Rancho Mirage in California. In this fight the WBC super lightweight title was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_159691\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"159691\" 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":"On This Day\u2026 August 1 1976.- At the Busan Stadium in South Korea, Panamanian Rigoberto Riasco defended his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-39624","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\/39624","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=39624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}