{"id":646244,"date":"2026-05-04T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:00:10","slug":"atif-oberlton-gets-a-scary-reminder-of-boxings-theater-of-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646244\/","title":{"rendered":"Atif Oberlton gets a scary reminder of boxing\u2019s \u2018theater of the unexpected\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;\">Now Oberlton will face Gongora, 22-3 (17 KOs), who is the most accomplished opponent Oberlton has faced. The 36-year-old Gongora knocked out Ali Akhmedov in 2020, and his recent defeats are a split decision loss to WBC interim titleholder Lester Martinez and a unanimous decision loss to WBC titleholder Christian Mbilli. Gongora, an Ecuadorian training out of Boston, will make his debut in the light heavyweight division after competing at middleweight and super middleweight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now Oberlton will face Gongora, 22-3 (17 KOs), who is the most accomplished opponent Oberlton has faced. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[196442,703,49,48,240557,196446,82],"class_list":["post-646244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-atif-oberlton","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-gongora","tag-joseph-george","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646244","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=646244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}