{"id":19224,"date":"2019-08-12T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/un-dia-como-hoy-pernell-whitaker-defiende-su-corona-wbc\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:57:41","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-pernell-whitaker-defends-his-wbc-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-history-pernell-whitaker-defends-his-wbc-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history, Pernell Whitaker defends his WBC crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On this day in history, Pernell Whitaker defends his WBC crown<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>August 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 1990<\/p>\n<p>On this day in history \u201cSweet pea\u201d Pernell Whitaker managed to defend his WBC lightweight championship for the third time by defeating Juan Nazario with an impressive KO in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary four division champion and Olympic gold medalist passed on July 14<sup>th<\/sup> of this year, however, he will always be remembered as one of the greatest defensive fighters of all time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sj_7thSWIsY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in history, Pernell Whitaker defends his WBC crown August 12th, 1990 On this day in history \u201cSweet pea\u201d Pernell Whitaker managed to defend<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19224","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\/19224","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}