{"id":818939,"date":"2026-07-22T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818939\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:27:13","slug":"on-this-day-in-boxing-history-july-22nd-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818939\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 22nd \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 22nd<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">1963.- American Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round in Las Vegas, Nevada, successfully defending his WBC heavyweight title. It was an immediate rematch of their first bout with an almost identical outcome.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">1987.- In a thrilling contest, Mexico\u2019s Ren\u00e9 Arredondo captured the WBC super lightweight championship by knocking out Japan\u2019s Tsuyoshi Hamada in the sixth round. The fight took place in Tokyo, Japan, allowing him to regain the title he had lost months earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">1995.- Britain\u2019s Nigel Benn defended his WBC super middleweight title by knocking out Italian challenger Vincenzo Nardiello in eight rounds, during an intense bout held in London, England.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">2006.- Argentina\u2019s Carlos \u201cEl Tata\u201d Baldomir knocked out legendary Canadian-American slugger Arturo Gatti in the ninth round in Atlantic City, New Jersey, successfully defending his WBC welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">2017.- Mexico\u2019s Miguel \u201cAlacr\u00e1n\u201d Berchelt successfully defended his WBC super featherweight championship by defeating former world champion Takashi Miura of Japan via unanimous decision, in a hard-fought battle held in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 22nd 1963.- American Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-818939","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\/818939","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=818939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}