{"id":506828,"date":"2026-03-01T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:28:07","slug":"fights-that-lived-up-to-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506828\/","title":{"rendered":"Fights that lived up to the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Perceived as a battle of two boogeymen. Martinez, a brilliant, untraditional boxer, was taking on tough opposition, and Williams, originally a welterweight, moved up to middleweight seeking the biggest fights possible. The first fight between the two was a classic, with Williams winning a heavily debated decision. The rematch left no doubt: Martinez would knock out Williams in two rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perceived as a battle of two boogeymen. Martinez, a brilliant, untraditional boxer, was taking on tough opposition, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,49,48,16054,25826,48853,69217,201153,20986,5384,82,88162,5513],"class_list":{"0":"post-506828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-canelo","13":"tag-conor-benn","14":"tag-deontay-wilder","15":"tag-eduardo-nunez","16":"tag-emanuel-navarrete","17":"tag-gennady-golovkin","18":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-teofimo-lopez","21":"tag-tyson-fury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506828","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=506828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}