{"id":191055,"date":"2025-10-10T18:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191055\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:28:17","slug":"melvin-jerusalem-siyakholwa-kuse-to-headline-manny-pacquiaos-thrilla-in-manila-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191055\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Jerusalem-Siyakholwa Kuse to headline Manny Pacquiao\u2019s \u2018Thrilla in Manila 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The 31-year-old Jerusalem, 24-3 (12 KOs), will make the third defense of the title he won last year when he outpointed Yudai Shigeoka, a result he repeated in March. Another points success, over Luis Castillo, was sandwiched between for Philippines\u2019 Jerusalem, who is a former WBO beltholder at 105lbs. The 22-year-old Kuse, from South Africa, has amassed a 9-2-1 (4 KOs) record and his challenge to Jerusalem was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/melvin-jerusalem-set-for-wbc-105lbs-title-defense-in-october\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by BoxingScene in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 31-year-old Jerusalem, 24-3 (12 KOs), will make the third defense of the title he won last year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6100,83731,83732,101,83733,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-191055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-manny-pacquiao","10":"tag-melvin-jerusalem","11":"tag-siyakholwa-kuse","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-thrilla-in-manila-2","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191055","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=191055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}