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\n\t\t\t\t\tFilipino boxer Melvin Jerusalem hopes to reclaim the WBC minimumweight crown he ceded to South African Siyakholwa Kuse when they lock horns for a third time\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Melvin Jerusalem gave South African Siyakholwa Kuse\u00a0a rematch and paid the price. Now, it will be the Filipino\u2019s turn to ask for a third fight to determine who is the better fighter between them.<\/p>\n
Jerusalem, whose record dropped to 25-4 (12 knockouts) after his unanimous decision loss to Kuse last May 16, need not despair as he\u2019s likely to get the chance for a decider.<\/p>\n
JC Manangquil, Jerusalem\u2019s promoter, said there\u2019s a rematch clause for the fight, and they will\u00a0avail of it. In neutral territory, preferably.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s after Kuse won on home turf as he wrested the World Boxing Council minimumweight crown from Jerusalem at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n
Jerusalem dropped Kuse with a hard counter right in the 11th round, but the hometown icon beat the count and exacted revenge over Jerusalem via unanimous decision, 116-112, 116-111, and 115-112, to claim the 105-pound belt.<\/p>\n
Last October 29, Jerusalem bested Kuse, also by unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, and 115-113) at the Smart Araneta Coliseum to keep the title he took from Japanese Yudai Shigeoka in March 2024.<\/p>\n
Jerusalem got bothered by a nasty cut in the left eye from the second round following an accidental clash of heads and was susceptible to Kuse\u2019s jabs in the second half of the 12-rounder.<\/p>\n
Aware that he\u2019s behind on the scorecards, Jerusalem went all-out in the last round, but Kuse fended off his assault with counters to become South Africa\u2019s newest world champion. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. Filipino…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-682103","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\/682103","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=682103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}