{"id":754237,"date":"2026-06-22T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754237\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:44:13","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754237\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing\u2026 June 22<\/p>\n<p>1976: Mexico\u2019s Carlos Palomino traveled to Wembley, England, to dethrone Britain\u2019s John H. Stracey. Palomino relentlessly attacked the champion\u2019s body before stopping him in the 12th round to become the new WBC Welterweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p>1979: Heavyweight legend Larry Holmes successfully defended his WBC title for the third time, scoring a 12th-round technical knockout over the determined Mike Weaver in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>1985: Thailand\u2019s Sot Chitalada retained his WBC Flyweight Title after fighting Mexico\u2019s Gabriel Bernal to a draw in the second bout of their historic trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>1989: Veteran Mexican Daniel Zaragoza defeated American Paul Banke by split decision in Atlantic City, beginning one of the fiercest rivalries in the super bantamweight division.<\/p>\n<p>2002: In the second chapter of their epic trilogy, Marco Antonio Barrera defeated Erik \u201cTerrible\u201d Morales by unanimous decision in Las Vegas, capturing the WBC Featherweight Title and evening what is widely regarded as the greatest rivalry in Mexican boxing history.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_186533\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"186533\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing\u2026 June 22 1976: Mexico\u2019s Carlos Palomino traveled to Wembley, England, to dethrone Britain\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-754237","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\/754237","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=754237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}