{"id":25865,"date":"2014-11-15T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/klitschko-kos-pulev-in-5th-round\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T18:06:00","slug":"klitschko-kos-pulev-in-5th-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/klitschko-kos-pulev-in-5th-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Klitschko KOs Pulev in 5th round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Wladimir Klitschko easily kept his IBF heavyweight title with a fifth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday at Hamburg&#8217;s O2 World arena.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko&#8217;s devastating left hook dropped Pulev with under a minute to go in the round, the fourth time he knocked down the previously unbeaten Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Tony Weeks stopped the count, signaling the end.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko (63-3, 53 KOs) remained unbeaten in his last 21 bouts since his last loss, to Lamon Brewster in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Ukrainian also holds the WBA, WBO and IBO belts.<\/p>\n<p>Pulev (20-1) was cut under both eyes in his first title fight.<\/p>\n<p>He was knocked down for the first time by a left hook less than 1 1\/2 minutes into the bout, then again almost as soon as he got up after losing his balance on another Klitschko left.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko wobbled him with a right early in the third round, then knocked him down again moments later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Wladimir Klitschko easily kept his IBF heavyweight title with a fifth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday at Hamburg&#8217;s O2 World arena. Klitschko&#8217;s devastating left hook dropped Pulev with under a minute to go in the round, the fourth time he knocked down the previously unbeaten Bulgarian. Referee Tony Weeks stopped [&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-25865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865","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=25865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}