{"id":26767,"date":"2020-02-04T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=26767"},"modified":"2020-02-04T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:37:14","slug":"keeping-track-russell-jr-vs-nyambayar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/keeping-track-russell-jr-vs-nyambayar\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track: Russell Jr. vs. Nyambayar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Keeping Track: Russell Jr. vs. Nyambayar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. (30-1, 18 KOs) will defend his crown against undefeated Mongolian fighter Tugstsogt &#8220;King Tug&#8221; Nyambayar,\u00a0this \u00a0Saturday, live on SHOWTIME at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania leading a Premier Boxing Champions event.<\/p>\n<p>Russell will make the fifth defense of his WBC featherweight title against his mandatory challenger, Tugstsogt Nyambayar (11-0, 9 KOs), seeking to prove he is still the best on the division.<\/p>\n<p>Nyambayar, a 2012 Olympic silver medalist, has quicly escalated the WBC rankings, \u00a0becoming mandatory challenger.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the WBC safety regulations, both fighters have successfully submitted their respective pre-weigh ins plus medical tests and MRI.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate the commitment of these fighters and respective teams complying with all WBC requirements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"overflowingVertical\" src=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RUSS-KT.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RUSS-KT.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping Track: Russell Jr. vs. Nyambayar World Boxing Council featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. (30-1, 18 KOs) will defend his crown against undefeated Mongolian fighter Tugstsogt<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26767","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\/26767","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=26767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}