{"id":233474,"date":"2025-10-30T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:29:09","slug":"melvin-jerusalem-edges-out-siyakholwa-kuse-to-retain-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233474\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Jerusalem edges out Siyakholwa Kuse to retain title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Muhammad Ali\u2019s legendary \u201cThrilla in Manila\u201d rubber match with Joe Frazier, Manny Pacquiao Promotions teamed up with the IBA to stage an unofficial sequel event earlier today, which saw multiple Filipino A-sides push through adversity to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The featured attraction saw WBC minimumweight champion Melvin Jerusalem (25-3, 12 KO) make a successful third defense of his title against 22-year-old South African challenger Siyakholwa Kuse (9-3-1, 4 KO). <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoxrecGrey\/status\/1983585045211128027\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open scoring<\/a> had Jerusalem up on two cards and down on the other after eight, but a strong close allowed him to walk away with a unanimous decision victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You can rewatch the whole event on the IBA\u2019s YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/Cg1x7rzzmYs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; Marcial vs Colmenares kicks off around 9:45:00, the main event just before 10:56:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Other action of note saw Carl Martin (27-0, 20 KO) trade knockdowns with former Naoya Inoue victim Aran Dipaen (21-5, 18 KO) en route to a wide unanimous decision win and Nico Ali Walsh (11-2-1, 5 KO), who some of you may not realize is Muhammad Ali\u2019s grandson, fight Thailand\u2019s Kittisak Klinson (10-2-1, 6 KO) to an eight-round draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Muhammad Ali\u2019s legendary \u201cThrilla in Manila\u201d rubber match with Joe Frazier, Manny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233474","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=233474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}