{"id":121933,"date":"2025-09-08T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121933\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:19:10","slug":"sugar-nunez-drops-christopher-diaz-twice-retains-ibf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121933\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sugar\u2019 Nunez drops Christopher Diaz twice, retains IBF title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eduardo \u201cSugar\u201d Nunez put Christopher Diaz down two times en route to retaining his IBF super featherweight title by unanimous decision in a fantastic action main event from Los Mochis, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nunez (29-1, 27 KO) won on scores of 116-110, 117-109, and 117-109, which could be argued as too wide, as \u201cPitufo\u201d Diaz (30-6, 19 KO) put up a tremendous, all-heart effort, giving everything he had to win his first world title at age 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wasn\u2019t to be, and fairly enough. Nunez, 28, put Diaz down twice in the seventh round, and even that should have been enough to make an ultimate difference on the cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nunez was in control of the face when he pressured, but allowed Diaz into it frequently by boxing off the back foot, an odd tactical choice on the surface that kept the Puerto Rican underdog in the fight. Nunez also ate a lot of hard shots from Diaz, who isn\u2019t a big puncher and couldn\u2019t make quite the dent he needed to truly turn the tide in his favor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMexico vs Puerto Rico is always a war, and Christopher is a warrior and that\u2019s what he brought today,\u201d Nunez said after the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eduardo \u201cSugar\u201d Nunez put Christopher Diaz down two times en route to retaining his IBF super featherweight title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,6588,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-results","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121933","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=121933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}