{"id":93239,"date":"2023-05-08T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/un-dia-como-hoy-8-de-mayo\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:58:35","slug":"on-this-day-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/on-this-day-may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day\u2026 May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On This Day\u2026 May 8<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1971.- Argentine Carlos Monz\u00f3n defeated Italian Nino Benvenuti by knockout in 3 rounds in Monte Carlo, Monaco. In this fight the WBC middleweight title was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>1976.- In a fight between Mexicans, Carlos Zarate knocked out Rodolfo Mart\u00ednez in the ninth round, defending his WBC bantamweight title. The match took place at the Forum in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n<p>1982.- Mexican Salvador S\u00e1nchez defended his WBC featherweight title, defeating Rocky Garc\u00eda by decision in 15 rounds at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>1987.- Australian Jeff Fenech defended his WBC super bantamweight title, defeating Thai Samart Payakarun by knockout in 4 rounds, in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>1993.- British Lennox Lewis defended his WBC heavyweight title, by defeating Tony Tucker by decision, in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>1993.- At the Thomas &amp; Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Mexican Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez knocked out Guyanese Terrence Alli in 6 rounds, defending his WBC super lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p>1999.- At the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, Erik &#8220;Terrible&#8221; Morales knocked out Juan Carlos Ram\u00edrez in 9 rounds, defending his WBC super bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p>2021.- Mexican Sa\u00fal Canelo \u00c1lvarez, knocked out British Billy Joe Saunders in the eighth round in Arlington, Texas. In this fight the WBC super middleweight title was at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day\u2026 May 8 1971.- Argentine Carlos Monz\u00f3n defeated Italian Nino Benvenuti by knockout in 3 rounds in Monte Carlo, Monaco. In this fight the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":93236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93239","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\/93239","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=93239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}