{"id":167657,"date":"2025-10-28T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/todo-listo-para-jerusalem-vs-kuse\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:00:28","slug":"countdown-for-jerusalem-vs-kuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/countdown-for-jerusalem-vs-kuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown for Jerusalem vs. Kuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Countdown for Jerusalem vs. Kuse<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Elite boxing returns to the iconic Araneta Coliseum in Barangay Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines, this Wednesday, October 29, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the legendary &#8220;Thrilla in Manila&#8221; fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.<\/p>\n<p>The historic venue will host a night of top-level professional boxing, headlined by a thrilling world title defense.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of the evening, Filipino WBC Strawweight World Champion Melvin Jerusalem (24-3) will step into the ring for the third defense of his coveted belt.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem will face the WBC&#8217;s second-ranked contender and division Silver Champion, the dangerous and ambitious South African Siyakholwa Kuse (9-2-1). An intense battle is expected between the local champion and the African challenger, both looking to write their own chapters in the rich boxing history of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Both fighters easily made weight at the official weigh-in held today, confirming they are in pristine condition and ready to enter the ring.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Jerusalem and Siyakholwa Kuse showed great determination at the weigh-in ceremony, promising a memorable fight that will honor the spirit of tenacity and the legacy of the greats who fought on this very stage half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s card promises to be a celebration of boxing, uniting the glorious past of the &#8220;Thrilla in Manila&#8221; with the excitement of current global boxing talent.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-167657-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ssstwitter.com_1761674297724.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ssstwitter.com_1761674297724.mp4\">https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ssstwitter.com_1761674297724.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countdown for Jerusalem vs. Kuse Elite boxing returns to the iconic Araneta Coliseum in Barangay Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines, this Wednesday, October 29, to commemorate the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":167653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167657","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=167657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}