{"id":443391,"date":"2026-01-30T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:01:15","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-january-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/443391\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in boxing\u2026 January 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in boxing\u2026 January 30th<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a01979.- Mexican Rodolfo Mart\u00ednez defended his WBC bantamweight title by defeating Thai Benice Borkhorsor by decision, at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a01982.- Puerto Rican Wilfredo Benitez defeated Panamanian Roberto Duran by decision, defending his WBC super welterweight crown in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a01990.- Sot Chitalada from Thailand, defended his WBC flyweight title, defeating Filipino Ric Siodoro by decision, at the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a01995.- Russian Yuri Arbachakov defeated Mexican Oscar Arciniega by decision in Sapporo, Japan, defending his WBC flyweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a02001.- Korean Yosam Choi knocked out the Thai Saman Sorjaturong in the seventh round, in a fight held at the Central City Millennium Hall in Seoul. With this triumph Yosam successfully defended his WBC light flyweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a02005.- Korean Injin Chi defended his WBC featherweight title, defeating Australian Tommy Browne by decision. The match took place at the Grand Hilton Convention Hall in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_174934\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"174934\" 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 30th \u00a01979.- Mexican Rodolfo Mart\u00ednez defended his WBC bantamweight title by defeating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-443391","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\/443391","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=443391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}