{"id":51611,"date":"2021-05-21T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/un-dia-como-hoy-el-puertorriqueno-jose-torres-defendio-su-titulo-wbc\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:09:55","slug":"a-day-like-today-puerto-rican-jose-torres-defended-his-wbc-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/a-day-like-today-puerto-rican-jose-torres-defended-his-wbc-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"A day like today, Puerto Rican Jose Torres, defended his WBC belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A day like today, Puerto Rican Jose Torres, defended his WBC belt<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>May 21st<\/p>\n<p>1966<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rican,\u00a0 Jose Torres, defended the WBC light heavyweight championship, by \u00a0defeating\u00a0 American Wayne Thornton\u00a0via decison after fifteen rounds. The bout took place at the Shea Stadium in New York. Thornton was knocked down twice in the first round, but toughed it out, \u00a0lasting until the final bell. The Referee was Johnny LoBianco. The Judges were\u00a0 Artie Aidala and Al Berl. It was the first defense of the crown Torres had conquered by defeating Willie Pastrano via TKO\u00a0 in 9 rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day like today, Puerto Rican Jose Torres, defended his WBC belt May 21st 1966 Puerto Rican,\u00a0 Jose Torres, defended the WBC light heavyweight championship, by<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51611","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\/51611","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=51611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}