{"id":485922,"date":"2026-02-19T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485922\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:06:07","slug":"zuffa-boxing-awards-first-championship-belt-but-not-to-actual-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485922\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing awards first championship belt, but not to actual boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zuffa Boxing has awarded its first-ever championship belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not to be outdone, World Boxing Council (WBC) created its own WBC Main Event world championship chain and pendant, to be awarded exclusively to WBC world champions competing in designated headliners. No word yet on whether or not this new piece of bling will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/407085\/terence-crawford-rips-into-wbc-for-stripping-him-of-title-you-should-be-paying-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">come with a sanctioning fee like the WBC title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It carries an \u201cestimated retail value\u201d of $40,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing has awarded its first-ever championship belt. Not to be outdone, World Boxing Council (WBC) created its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82,75400],"class_list":["post-485922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485922","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=485922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}