{"id":723428,"date":"2026-06-08T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723428\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:33:09","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-june-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723428\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 June 8<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,0,0\">1963 \u2013 At the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York, Emile Griffith (Virgin Islands) defeated Cuba\u2019s Luis Manuel Rodr\u00edguez by decision, successfully defending the WBC world super welterweight championship.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,1,0\">1990 \u2013 At the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan\u2019s Hideyuki Ohashi retained his WBC world strawweight title by capturing a decision victory over Thai challenger Napa Kiatwanchai.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,2,0\">2002 \u2013 In one of the most highly anticipated heavyweight fights in history, Britain\u2019s Lennox Lewis knocked out America\u2019s Mike Tyson in the eighth round in Memphis, Tennessee, retaining the undisputed WBC heavyweight championship.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3,3,0\">2013 \u2013 Canadian Adonis \u201cSuperman\u201d Stevenson captured the WBC world light heavyweight championship after scoring a stunning knockout over America\u2019s Chad Dawson in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_185503\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"185503\" 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 June 8 1963 \u2013 At the iconic Madison Square Garden in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-723428","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\/723428","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=723428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}