{"id":27049,"date":"2020-02-12T18:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/historica-victoria-para-keywan-sefari\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:43:27","slug":"historic-key-victory-for-keywan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/historic-key-victory-for-keywan\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic key victory for Keywan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Historic key victory for Keywan<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Lawrence Clarke Russam\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Congratulations to \u00a0Keywan Sefari for his spectacular KO \u00a0victory over formidable opponent, Abbas Hashemi Nasab\u2019 \u00a0who fought with honour and admirable bravery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This contest was the first ever professional boxing title fight in Iranian boxing history. It was for the Iran National Cruiserweight Championship. Keywan Sefari, the younger of the two fighters won by way of knockout in the 7th round with a stunning right hook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This historic event was hosted and organised by the Iran Boxing Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Thanks to both fighters for their courage, honour and mutual respect. And tremendous gratitude to Mauricio Sulaiman, Patrick Cusick and the WBC for their unrelenting support for boxing in Iran. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This event was made possible by Reza Djabbarpoor on behalf of Iran Boxing Council and Kevin P. Noone and the Asian Boxing Council. Special thanks must go to Reza Djabbarpoor, whose dedicated perseverance has made this historic event possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A milestone for \u00a0Iran Boxing Council, which \u00a0continues its \u00a0pioneering work to integrate professional boxing into the mainstream in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Join us in offering our thanks to all those ring officials, referees and supervisors who \u00a0oversaw this bout, making it a safe and well ajudicated contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SkDUzzWqBic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic key victory for Keywan By Lawrence Clarke Russam\u00a0 Congratulations to \u00a0Keywan Sefari for his spectacular KO \u00a0victory over formidable opponent, Abbas Hashemi Nasab\u2019 \u00a0who fought<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27049","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\/27049","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=27049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}