{"id":10707,"date":"2013-12-01T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stevenson-retains-wbc-title\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:22:00","slug":"stevenson-retains-wbc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/stevenson-retains-wbc-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson retains WBC title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec City, QC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Adonis Stevenson defended his WBC light heavyweight title on Saturday with a sixth-round TKO over mandatory challenger Tony Bellew.<\/p>\n<p>Stevenson (22-1, 19 KOs), who has successfully defended his title twice, landed a hard left hand to the head of Bellew, snapping the contender&#8217;s head back and rendering him completely defenseless. With Bellew unable to defend himself, the referee was forced to step in and stop the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Bellew (20-1-1, 12 KOs) was knocked to the mat earlier in the round.<\/p>\n<p>Undefeated WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (23-0-1, 21 KOs) recorded a second-round knockout of Ismayl Sillakh (21-2, 17KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Sillakh appeared to have the upperhand in the first round, but 50 seconds into the second Kovalev landed a huge right before two quick lefts and nearly knocked Sillakh out of the ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec City, QC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Adonis Stevenson defended his WBC light heavyweight title on Saturday with a sixth-round TKO over mandatory challenger Tony Bellew. Stevenson (22-1, 19 KOs), who has successfully defended his title twice, landed a hard left hand to the head of Bellew, snapping the contender&#8217;s head back and rendering him completely defenseless. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}