On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 17<\/p>\n
1977.- At the Luis Ramos Gymnasium in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, local idol Luis \u201cLuminao\u201d Estaba successfully defended his WBC world light flyweight championship by defeating gritty Colombian challenger Ricardo Estupi\u00f1\u00e1n via a 15-round unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
1983.- Legendary Puerto Rican Carlos \u201cSugar\u201d De Le\u00f3n reclaimed the WBC cruiserweight crown, avenging his previous loss by defeating American S.T. Gordon via a clear 12-round unanimous decision at the iconic Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n
1993.- In a thrilling battle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, the historic Michael Carbajal retained his WBC world light flyweight championship, stopping dangerous South Korean Olympic challenger Kwang-Sun Kim via a technical knockout (TKO) in the sixth round.<\/p>\n
1999.- At the Philips Halle in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, superb Cuban southpaw Juan Carlos \u201cThe Black Panther\u201d G\u00f3mez authoritatively defended his WBC world cruiserweight crown by stopping Jamaican Bruce Scott via technical knockout (TKO) in the sixth round.<\/p>\n
2010.- Sensational Mexican Fernando \u201cCochulito\u201d Montiel defended his WBC world bantamweight championship with an electrifying third-round knockout (KO) over tough Panamanian Rafael \u201cEl Torito\u201d Concepci\u00f3n in a bout held in Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez, Chiapas, Mexico.<\/p>\n
2021.- In an absolute unification war at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, American Jermell Charlo and Argentina\u2019s Brian Casta\u00f1o clashed in a memorable battle that ended in a split-decision draw after 12 rounds, keeping Charlo as the WBC super welterweight king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day in Boxing History\u2026 July 17 1977.- At the Luis Ramos Gymnasium in Puerto La Cruz,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701643","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=701643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}