{"id":340560,"date":"2025-12-29T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340560\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:00:13","slug":"masamichi-yabuki-stops-felix-alvarado-in-first-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340560\/","title":{"rendered":"Masamichi Yabuki stops Felix Alvarado in first title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">IBF flyweight champion Masamichi Yabuki turned in another standout performance in Aichi this morning, handing the ultra-tough Felix Alvarado his first stoppage loss in nearly 50 pro fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yabuki has now stopped six consecutive opponents since splitting a pair of bouts with Kenshiro Teraji. He\u2019s always been better than his record, his only prior losses coming to Junto Nakatani, Seigo Yuri Akui, and Daniel Matellon, but he\u2019s truly blossomed to become one of the sport\u2019s best and most underrated champions at the age of 33. With his mandatory obligation satisfied for the next 12 months, here\u2019s hoping he gets a crack at unified titlist Ricardo Sandoval next time out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IBF flyweight champion Masamichi Yabuki turned in another standout performance in Aichi this morning, handing the ultra-tough Felix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,6588,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340560","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-boxing-results","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340560","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=340560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}