{"id":104422,"date":"2023-10-23T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=104422"},"modified":"2023-10-23T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:47:59","slug":"jorge-linares-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/jorge-linares-announces-his-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Linares announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jorge Linares announces his retirement<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Former three division world champion Jorge \u201cGolden Boy\u201d Linares, 38, announced his retirement from boxing, after his intrepid unanimous decision loss against Jack Catterall, in Liverpool, England.<\/p>\n<p>Linares fought his fourth consecutive loss and sixth in his last 10 fights.<\/p>\n<p>By George! 21 years in professional boxing, during which he won the World Boxing Council featherweight championship, the WBA super featherweight championship, and the WBC lightweight championship.<\/p>\n<p>Linares concludes his magnificent and distinguished career with a professional record of 47 wins, 9 losses and 29 wins by knockout, since his debut in December 2002, when he defeated Kyong Soo Chung, in Osaka, Japan.<br \/>\nHis entire career he fought proudly, loyaly representing the banner of Teiken Promotions, the company run by Akihiko Honda in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was my last fight, I told my team, I told my wife, my family, that if I lost this fight, I would retire. So I lost and I&#8217;m leaving boxing. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m very happy as I have accomplished so much.<br \/>\n\u201cI told my team that it was a beautiful fight. Finishing today by decision was a victory for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WBC and its President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n wish Jorge much success in his future plans. What marvelous times you have given us Champ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"overflowingVertical\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/jorge-linares.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/jorge-linares.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Linares announces his retirement Former three division world champion Jorge \u201cGolden Boy\u201d Linares, 38, announced his retirement from boxing, after his intrepid unanimous decision loss<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":104447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}