{"id":421886,"date":"2026-01-20T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:01:09","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-january-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421886\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in boxing\u2026 January 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in boxing\u2026 January 20th<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a01980.- Nicaraguan superstar Alexis Arg\u00fcello knocked out the North American Rub\u00e9n Castillo in 11 rounds, in Tucson, Arizona. With this win he defended his WBC super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\">1990.- Korean Sungkil Moon defended his super flyweight title at the World Trade Center in Seoul, defeating the Ghanaian fighter, Nana Konadu, by technical decision in 9 rounds. After dominating most of the fight, Moon suffered a cut from an accidental headbutt, rendering him unable to continue the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">2001.- Mexican Jos\u00e9 Luis Castillo knocked out his fellow countryman C\u00e9sar Baz\u00e1n in 6 rounds, in Las Vegas, Nevada. With this win, Jos\u00e9 Luis defended his WBC lightweight crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">2001.- In Las Vegas, Nevada, Floyd Mayweather dominated Diego Corrales, knocking him down 5 times until knocking him out in the tenth round, making one more defense of his WBC super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal elementToProof\">2007.- British Junior Witter knocked out the Mexican Arturo Morua in the seventh round, in a card held at Alexandra Palace in Wood Green, London, defending his WBC super lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_174245\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"174245\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this day in boxing\u2026 January 20th \u00a01980.- Nicaraguan superstar Alexis Arg\u00fcello knocked out the North American Rub\u00e9n&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-421886","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\/421886","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=421886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}