{"id":41140,"date":"2020-11-12T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=41140"},"modified":"2020-11-12T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:17:07","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-roger-mayweather-become-a-two-weight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-history-roger-mayweather-become-a-two-weight-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history, Roger Mayweather become a two-weight champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section the_content has_content\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On this day in history, Roger Mayweather become a two-weight champion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">November 12, 1987.- Roger Mayweather become a two-weight world champion by defeating WBC super lightweight champion Rene Arrendo at the Sports Arena Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Mayweather, uncle of former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr, boxed superbly in a toe-to-toe thriller, flooring Arrendo three times in the sixth round for a TKO win.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlack Mamba\u201d defended his 140lb title four times before he was stopped for a second time in a rematch with the Mexican ring legend Julio Cesar Chavez in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez, who was undefeated with a 62-0 record, forced Mayweather to retire on his stool after the tenth round, four years after knocking the American out in two rounds to defend his WBC super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in history, Roger Mayweather become a two-weight champion November 12, 1987.- Roger Mayweather become a two-weight world champion by defeating WBC super lightweight<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41140","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\/41140","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=41140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}