Lupe Pintor Honored During WBC Tuesday Coffee<\/p>\n
Legendary former world champion Lupe Pintor was honored during this week\u2019s WBC \u00a0Martes de Caf\u00e9\u00a0 in recognition of his outstanding career and lasting legacy in the sport of boxing.<\/p>\n
As part of the tribute, WBC President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n presented Pintor with a commemorative plaque, recognizing his remarkable achievements and contributions to the history of the World Boxing Council.<\/p>\n
A special tribute video was shown, highlighting the defining moments of his career, including his unforgettable victory over Carlos Z\u00e1rate to capture the WBC bantamweight world title in one of the most memorable all-Mexican championship bouts in boxing history.<\/p>\n
Visibly moved by the recognition, Pintor expressed his gratitude and happiness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very happy and deeply grateful to the WBC for giving me the opportunity to become a world champion,\u201d said the legendary Mexican champion.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was attended by fellow boxing greats Pipino Cuevas, Carlos Z\u00e1rate, Daniel Zaragoza, and Humberto \u201cChiquita\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez, who joined in celebrating Pintor\u2019s extraordinary career.<\/p>\n
Through this tribute, the WBC once again reaffirmed its commitment to honoring the champions whose accomplishments have helped shape the history of boxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lupe Pintor Honored During WBC Tuesday Coffee Legendary former world champion Lupe Pintor was honored during this week\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-832664","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\/832664","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=832664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}