{"id":455771,"date":"2026-02-05T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455771\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:12:09","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-february-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455771\/","title":{"rendered":"On this Day in Boxing\u2026 February 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Day in Boxing\u2026 February 5<\/p>\n<p>1977.- \u00a0Mexican Carlos Zarate, defended his WBC bantamweight title by knocking out Fernando Cabanela in the third round, in Naucalpan, State of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>1996.- Russian Yuri Arbachakov retained his WBC flyweight title by defeating Ra\u00fal Ju\u00e1rez by decision in Osaka, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>2002.- Willie Jorrin retained his WBC super bantamweight title by drawing against the Japanese Osamu Sato, in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>2011.- In Osaka, Japan, Mexican Tom\u00e1s Rojas won the WBC super flyweight title by defeating the local fighter Nobuo Nashiro by decision.<\/p>\n<p>2014.- Mexican Osvaldo Novoa won the WBC straw title, defeating Chinese Xiong Zhao Zhong in a match at the City Hall in Haikou, China.<\/p>\n<p>2015.- Thai Wanheng Menayothin defeated Filipino Jeffrey Galero by decision, to defend his WBC straw title, in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>2022.- \u00a0American Jesse Rodr\u00edguez conquered the vacant super flyweight title, defeating the former Mexican world champion Carlos Cuadras, by decision. The fight took place in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_175335\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"175335\" 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 February 5 1977.- \u00a0Mexican Carlos Zarate, defended his WBC bantamweight title by knocking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-455771","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\/455771","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=455771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}