{"id":708708,"date":"2026-06-01T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:30:11","slug":"franccesca-hennessy-tkos-aurora-de-persio-to-retain-wbc-silver-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708708\/","title":{"rendered":"Franccesca Hennessy TKO\u2019s\u00a0 Aurora De Persio to Retain WBC Silver Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franccesca Hennessy TKO\u2019s\u00a0 Aurora De Persio to Retain WBC Silver Title<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Franccesca Hennessy delivered a dominant performance in London, stopping Italy\u2019s Aurora De Persio by technical knockout to successfully defend her WBC Silver Bantamweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hennessy controlled the action from the opening rounds with her high work rate and relentless pressure. Although she suffered swelling under her right eye following several head clashes, she never lost control of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The fight was stopped in the sixth round after the British fighter landed sustained punishment on an outmatched De Persio, obliging the referee to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>At just 21 years old, Hennessy continues to establish herself as one of the brightest young talents in women\u2019s boxing and is moving closer to major opportunities in the bantamweight division<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_184856\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"184856\" 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":"Franccesca Hennessy TKO\u2019s\u00a0 Aurora De Persio to Retain WBC Silver Title Britain\u2019s Franccesca Hennessy delivered a dominant performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-708708","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\/708708","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=708708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}