{"id":40859,"date":"2020-11-08T12:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/haney-defendio-corona-wbc\/"},"modified":"2020-11-08T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:38:40","slug":"haney-successfully-defends-wbc-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/haney-successfully-defends-wbc-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Haney successfully defends WBC crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Haney successfully defends WBC crown<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council undefeated lightweight champion made his second successful defense, with a Convincing victory by unanimous decision in 12 rounds over tough as old boots Cuban Yuriorkis Gamboa, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino in Hollywood, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Haney fought for the first time in 52 weeks, which he spent most of the time recovering from a right shoulder surgery and surgery, after a 12-round win over undefeated Alfredo Santiago last November.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the contest, Haney controlled the offensive, using his long, snappy jab. The height and reach distance hampered Gamboa significantly, considerably and continually.<\/p>\n<p>Gamboa attacked with his left, hoping to catch Haney with his right, but seldom managed to reach him and land cleanly. Haney controlled the fight from middle distance with a rapier left jab and hard straight rights, while Gamboa concentrated on evasive action, avoiding punishment whenever he could, largely without engaging, with gloves held high.<\/p>\n<p>Haney was looking for the knockout, but durable Gamboa managed to not to go down, taking advantage of his experience.yet his face puffed up as a result of a constant stream of accurate marksmanship. Gamboa weathered considerable punishment.<\/p>\n<p>It became more messy with an increasing number of irritable clinches. Gamboa was deducted a point for excessive holding in the eleventh round, after two previous warnings from the Referee, during the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Fernando Barbosa scored 118-109, while Michael Tate and Michael Ross each scored 120-107.<\/p>\n<p>Haney improved his record to 25-0 (16KOs) with the victory, while Gamboa suffered his second loss in a row as he fell to 30-4 (18KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Devin Haney is now confirmed as one of the best fighters in the division, with promising attractive fights beaconing with Teofimo L\u00f3pez or Ryan Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haney successfully defends WBC crown World Boxing Council undefeated lightweight champion made his second successful defense, with a Convincing victory by unanimous decision in 12 rounds<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40859","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\/40859","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=40859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}