{"id":22868,"date":"2014-08-30T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/huck-beats-larghetti-to-retain-cruiserweight-crown\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T18:48:00","slug":"huck-beats-larghetti-to-retain-cruiserweight-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/huck-beats-larghetti-to-retain-cruiserweight-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Huck beats Larghetti to retain cruiserweight crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halle, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; In the end, Marco Huck will retain his WBO cruiserweight crown, although there was some controversy as to how his bout against Mirko Larghetti ended.<\/p>\n<p>Huck (38-2-1) battered Larghetti with a barrage of punches at the conclusion of the 12th and final round. Although referee Jack Reiss ruled that a knockout punch floored Larghetti before the round was over, the challenger didn&#8217;t hit the canvas until after the bell sounded to end the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was placed in the hands of the judges, who ruled unanimously in Huck&#8217;s favor: 116-112, 116-112, 118-110.<\/p>\n<p>Larghetti (21-1) suffered his first-ever defeat to the man who successfully defended the cruiserweight crown for the 13th time, tying Englishman Johnny Nelson&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halle, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; In the end, Marco Huck will retain his WBO cruiserweight crown, although there was some controversy as to how his bout against Mirko Larghetti ended. Huck (38-2-1) battered Larghetti with a barrage of punches at the conclusion of the 12th and final round. Although referee Jack Reiss ruled that a knockout [&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-22868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868","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=22868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}