{"id":180422,"date":"2026-04-13T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/ha-so-baek-destrona-a-riku-kunimoto-y-conquista-el-titulo-medio-de-la-opbf\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:13:40","slug":"ha-so-baek-unseats-riku-kunimoto-to-capture-opbf-middleweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/ha-so-baek-unseats-riku-kunimoto-to-capture-opbf-middleweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ha So Baek Unseats Riku Kunimoto to Capture OPBF Middleweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-path-to-node=\"2\"><strong>Ha So Baek Unseats Riku Kunimoto to Capture OPBF Middleweight Title<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The middleweight landscape in Asia and the Pacific took an unexpected turn this Sunday, April 12, 2026, following a dominant performance by Mongolian fighter Ha So Baek, who was crowned the new Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) Middleweight Champion.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">In the main event of the card presented by MUTO Promotions at the Sumiyoshi Kumin Center, Baek pulled off an upset by stopping the now former Japanese champion, Riku Kunimoto.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The bout lived up to the power-punching expectations of the middleweight division. Kunimoto attempted to assert his home-ring advantage and pace from the opening bell, but he was met by a Mongolian challenger determined to make history. The climax arrived in the seventh round when a precise offensive surge from Baek halted the action at the 2:30 mark, forcing referee Nobuto Ikehara to declare a TKO.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">With this victory, Ha So Baek takes the green belt to Mongolia, establishing himself as one of the most dangerous emerging figures in the region at 160 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha So Baek Unseats Riku Kunimoto to Capture OPBF Middleweight Title The middleweight landscape in Asia and the Pacific took an unexpected turn this Sunday, April<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180422","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\/180422","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=180422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}