{"id":575231,"date":"2026-05-09T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:19:13","slug":"ageing-mike-perez-fails-to-impress-in-win-over-franklin-arinze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575231\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing Mike Perez fails to impress in win over Franklin Arinze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">The fifth was again a close affair, but it was Perez who was pressing the action. The pair seemed locked together at times, laying on the ropes and hammering away at each other\u2019s mid-section. Arinze battled back in the seventh, when landing two right hands that knocked back the head of Arinze. The eighth, again, was competitive, and at the sound of the final bell neither fighter was confident they\u2019d done enough. Perez, 32-3-1 (22 KOs), got the nod on the referee Darren Sarginson\u2019s scorecard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fifth was again a close affair, but it was Perez who was pressing the action. The pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,10078,196646,29980,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-575231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxingscene","tag-franklin-arinze","tag-mike-perez","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575231","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=575231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}