{"id":18146,"date":"2014-05-03T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/abraham-keeps-super-middleweight-crown\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:35:00","slug":"abraham-keeps-super-middleweight-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/abraham-keeps-super-middleweight-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham keeps super middleweight crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Arthur Abraham managed to retain his WBO super middleweight crown with a 12-round unanimous decision over Nikola Sjekloca on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham (40-4) took the bout thanks to scores of 116-113, 116-112 and 119-110, and despite suffering a right hand injury midway through the fight which was largely useless thereafter. It&#8217;s the third successful title defense for the 34-year-old Armenian.<\/p>\n<p>Sjekloca (26-2), on the other hand, has dropped two of his last three fights since February of 2013, and couldn&#8217;t capitalize on momentum from his last match, a second-round knockout of Misa Nikolic last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Arthur Abraham managed to retain his WBO super middleweight crown with a 12-round unanimous decision over Nikola Sjekloca on Saturday night. Abraham (40-4) took the bout thanks to scores of 116-113, 116-112 and 119-110, and despite suffering a right hand injury midway through the fight which was largely useless thereafter. It&#8217;s [&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-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","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=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}