{"id":594944,"date":"2026-05-20T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:16:09","slug":"the-10-least-deserving-heavyweight-challengers-in-wbc-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594944\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 least deserving heavyweight challengers in WBC history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So underwhelmed by the threat of Spain-based Uruguayan Alfredo Evangelista, Muhammad Ali boxed two exhibitions, against Michael Dokes and Jody Ballard, one month before this 15-rounder. Evangelista, good at European level but lacking in world class, had lost his previous bout \u2013 an eight-rounder to Lorenzo Zanon \u2013 before managing to take the aging Ali the distance, losing widely. Somehow, he would secure another undeserved shot, only to be stopped by Larry Holmes, the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So underwhelmed by the threat of Spain-based Uruguayan Alfredo Evangelista, Muhammad Ali boxed two exhibitions, against Michael Dokes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,203377,203376,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-heavyweight-history","tag-least-deserving-heavyweight-challengers","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594944","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=594944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}