{"id":887244,"date":"2026-09-07T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887244\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:42:14","slug":"anton-cherniakov-is-the-new-wbc-ukraine-light-heavyweight-champion-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/887244\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton Cherniakov is the New WBC Ukraine Light Heavyweight Champion \u2013 World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Cherniakov is the New WBC Ukraine Light Heavyweight Champion<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">On September 5, in Sheptytskyi, Lviv Region, Anton Cherniakov faced Oleksandr Ivkov with both the WBC Ukraine title and the Ukrainian national light heavyweight championship (up to 79.4 kg \/ 175 lbs) on the line.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">A day prior to the bout, on September 4, both fighters successfully fulfilled their duties on the scales during the official weigh-in. Cherniakov came in at 79.240 kg, while Ivkov weighed 79.340 kg, comfortably placing both competitors under the light heavyweight limit.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The contest came to a decisive end in the sixth round, with Anton Cherniakov securing a technical knockout victory. Following an unanswered, effective barrage of punches from Cherniakov, the referee stepped in to halt the action and award him the stoppage win.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/anton2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\"  \/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">At the time of the stoppage, Cherniakov led on all three judges\u2019 scorecards: Ihor Kalenchenko saw the fight 48\u201347, while Viktor Fesechko and Ruslan Myshko both scored it 49\u201346, all in favor of Cherniakov.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">With this triumph, Anton Cherniakov claimed a double crown: the WBC Ukraine belt and the Ukrainian national light heavyweight championship.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/anton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\"  \/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">This victory marks Cherniakov\u2019s seventh consecutive win in as many professional fights and his fourth inside the distance, improving his undefeated record to 7-0, 4 KOs. Meanwhile, Oleksandr Ivkov\u2019s record now stands at 8-2-1, 6 KOs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_192500\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"192500\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788820934_251_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton Cherniakov is the New WBC Ukraine Light Heavyweight Champion On September 5, in Sheptytskyi, Lviv Region, Anton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-887244","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\/887244","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=887244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}