{"id":290612,"date":"2026-04-29T00:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:54:15","slug":"alejandra-rojas-receives-wbc-international-lightweight-belt-after-long-beach-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290612\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandra Rojas receives WBC International lightweight belt after Long Beach victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandra Rojas receives WBC International lightweight belt after Long Beach victory<\/p>\n<p>The World Boxing Council officially presented the International lightweight belt to Alejandra Rojas following her impressive victory last weekend in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Rojas claimed the title after defeating Chelsey Anderson, teaching one of the most significant milestones of her professional career. During the WBC\u2019s weekly press conference, she received her belt from Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n and Marilyn Badillo.<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n praised the new champion and highlighted her potential: \u201cI wish her the best. This is the beginning of a brilliant career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alejandra Rojas shared the emotional context behind her victory: \u201cI\u2019m very happy, I still can\u2019t believe it. I fought with two injuries and with my sister in the hospital, but that gave me the push I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rojas\u2019 victory represents not only a sporting achievement, but also a display of resilience and determination\u2014qualities that are beginning to define her path in professional boxing.<\/p>\n<p>With this title, Alejandra Rojas positions herself as one of the rising prospects to watch in the WBC lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_181764\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"181764\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alejandra Rojas receives WBC International lightweight belt after Long Beach victory The World Boxing Council officially presented the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-290612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}