{"id":55789,"date":"2021-06-30T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/posible-combate-entre-campeones-beterbiev-vs-smith-jr\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:18:38","slug":"beterbiev-vs-smith-jr-summit-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/beterbiev-vs-smith-jr-summit-is-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Beterbiev vs. Smith Jr summit is in the works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Beterbiev vs. Smith Jr summit is in the works!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Shuttle diplomacy gathering pace as Top Rank mogul Bob Arum, plans to present a superpowers light heavyweight match between World Boxing Council champion Artur Beterbiev of Russia (16-0, 16 KOs) and WBO champion Joe Smith of the United States. Jr. (27-3, 21 KOs), on September 18, probably in the Cathedral of Boxing Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>In Beterbiev&#8217;s most recent fight, he knocked out Adam Deines in the 10th round last March, in a bout where he was coming off some injuries and recovering from Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the 28-year-old Smith defeated Maxim Vlasov by a 12-round majority decision last April in a very close and contested fight.<\/p>\n<p>This is an illuminating match that fans want to see. Beterbiev and Smith have proved their mettle. Now they seek a gold standard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beterbiev vs. Smith Jr summit is in the works! Shuttle diplomacy gathering pace as Top Rank mogul Bob Arum, plans to present a superpowers light heavyweight<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55789","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\/55789","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=55789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}