{"id":10659,"date":"2025-07-20T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10659\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:17:08","slug":"southampton-boxer-edmondson-suffers-defeat-to-lapin-at-wembley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10659\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton boxer Edmondson suffers defeat to Lapin at Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Edmondson, 29, was edged on decision (95-95, 96-94, 96-94) in a tight contest during the undercard for\u00a0Oleksandr Usyk vs\u00a0Daniel Dubois&#8217; second fight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Edmondson looked baffled when the scorecards were read out in favour of his Polish-born Ukrainian opponent, having felt he did enough to secure a career-progressing win.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After a slow start, Edmondson\u00a0pinned Lapin into the corner at the end of the fourth round, and the 28 year old could only get out by holding onto &#8216;The Saint&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the eighth round,\u00a0Edmondson forced Lapin back into the ropes, and the six-foot-six-inch southpaw got tangled twice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lapin responded with a combination of blows in the ninth round &#8211; his best of the night &#8211; which may have been the deciding factor in the eyes of the judges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With this win, Lapin is now IBF Intercontinental, WBA Continental and WBO International light-heavyweight champion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Edmonson&#8217;s record has dropped to\u00a011-1 (3 KOs), but he should be proud despite suffering a tight defeat, which could have gone either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmondson, 29, was edged on decision (95-95, 96-94, 96-94) in a tight contest during the undercard for\u00a0Oleksandr Usyk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}