{"id":835503,"date":"2026-11-15T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835503\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T15:54:10","slug":"zelfa-barrett-stops-gavin-gwynne-for-vacant-wba-intercontinental-lightweight-title-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/835503\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelfa Barrett stops Gavin Gwynne for vacant WBA Intercontinental lightweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zelfa Barrett claimed the vacant WBA Intercontinental lightweight title with a fifth-round stoppage of Gavin Gwynne at Wembley Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former British, Commonwealth and European lightweight champion Gwynne was five inches taller than his opponent but was floored by an uppercut from the quicker fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester&#8217;s Barrett, 33, extended his record to 36 wins and three defeats with 19 knockouts, and has won five fights in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gwynne went into the fight on the back of an impressive majority decision win over previously unbeaten Khaleel Majid in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the 36-year-old, from Merthyr in south Wales, now has a record of 19-5-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barrett will hope victory on the MF Pro card gives him a chance to move up the WBA rankings at 135lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelfa Barrett claimed the vacant WBA Intercontinental lightweight title with a fifth-round stoppage of Gavin Gwynne at Wembley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-835503","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\/835503","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=835503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}