{"id":23272,"date":"2019-11-08T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=23272"},"modified":"2019-11-08T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T20:24:11","slug":"shiro-prepares-to-close-the-year-with-another-wbc-crown-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/shiro-prepares-to-close-the-year-with-another-wbc-crown-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiro prepares to close the year with another WBC crown defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shiro prepares to close the year with another WBC crown defense<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On December 23 at the Yokohama Arena in Kanagawa, Japan, the World Boxing Council&#8217;s light flyweight \u00a0champion Ken Shiro (16-0, 9 KOs) will defend his title against the IBF champion, Nicaraguan Felix Alvarado (35 &#8211; 2, 30 knockouts).<\/p>\n<p>Shiro had stated his desire to unify the division to prove he`s \u00a0the best in the world, and now he will have the chance against Alvarado.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Alvarado&#8217;s second successive fight against a Japanese fighter, after defeating\u00a0 Reiya Konishi.<\/p>\n<p>Ken is having a great training camp and pledges he`ll be one hundred and ten percent ready to take on his fellow champion, two days before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiro prepares to close the year with another WBC crown defense On December 23 at the Yokohama Arena in Kanagawa, Japan, the World Boxing Council&#8217;s light<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23272","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\/23272","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=23272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}