{"id":701986,"date":"2026-05-29T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:20:09","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701986\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 May 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 May 29<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\">1982: Mexico\u2019s Rafael \u201cBazuka\u201d Lim\u00f3n captured the WBC super featherweight world title by defeating Filipino fighter Rolando Navarrete via decision at The Aladdin in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,1,0\">1988: Canada\u2019s Don Lalonde successfully defended his WBC light heavyweight championship, stopping Leslie Stewart of Trinidad and Tobago with a fifth-round knockout in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,2,0\">2009: Thailand\u2019s Oleydong Sithsanerchai retained his WBC strawweight world crown with a decision victory over Indonesia\u2019s Mohamed Rachman in Phuket, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,3,0\">2010: Ukrainian heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko defended his WBC world title, securing a tenth-round knockout against Poland\u2019s Albert Sosnowski in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,4,0\">2016: Britain\u2019s Tony Bellew captured the vacant WBC world cruiserweight title with a dramatic third-round knockout of Congolese fighter Ilunga Makabu in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,5,0\">2021: Filipino legend Nonito Donaire scored a spectacular fourth-round knockout over France\u2019s Nordine Oubaali in Carson, California, capturing the WBC world bantamweight championship.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,6,0\">2021: America\u2019s Devin Haney retained his WBC world lightweight title by earning a hard-fought decision victory over Venezuela\u2019s Jorge Linares in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_184578\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"184578\" 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 History\u2026 May 29 1982: Mexico\u2019s Rafael \u201cBazuka\u201d Lim\u00f3n captured the WBC super featherweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-701986","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\/701986","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=701986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}