{"id":56748,"date":"2021-07-22T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/eliminatoria-supermedio-wbc-benavidez-vs-uzcategui\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:35:40","slug":"wbc-super-middleweight-eliminatory-benavidez-vs-uzcategui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wbc-super-middleweight-eliminatory-benavidez-vs-uzcategui\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC super- middleweight eliminatory: Benavidez vs. Uzcategui"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WBC super- middleweight eliminatory: Benavidez vs. Uzcategui<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Two-time former super middleweight world champion, and undefeated David \u201cRed Flag\u201d Benavidez, will fight former world champion, Jos\u00e9 Uzcategui, in a super middleweight elimination match of the World Boxing Council, on August 28 at the Phoenix Suns Arena, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second fight back for Benavidez (24-0, 21 KOs) since he forfeited the WBC 168-pound world title on the scale in August of last year.<br \/>\nIn his most recent bout, he defeated American Ronald Ellis by TKO in the eleventh round last March in Uncasville, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Uzcategui (31-4, 26 KOs) reigned as IBF super middleweight champion since March 2018, when he defeated former champion Andre Dirrel, before losing him by decision, to reigning champion Caleb Plant in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent fight, Uzcategui defeated Mexican Jaime Hern\u00e1ndez by knockout in the second round last June.<br \/>\nThe card, which is promoted by Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), will be broadcast on Showtime.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/benavidez-vs-uzcategu2019\/i.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/benavidez-vs-uzcategu2019\/i.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBC super- middleweight eliminatory: Benavidez vs. Uzcategui Two-time former super middleweight world champion, and undefeated David \u201cRed Flag\u201d Benavidez, will fight former world champion, Jos\u00e9 Uzcategui,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56748","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\/56748","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=56748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}