{"id":3688,"date":"2013-08-17T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kovalev-takes-wbo-light-heavy-belt-with-tko-of-cleverly\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T18:36:00","slug":"kovalev-takes-wbo-light-heavy-belt-with-tko-of-cleverly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/kovalev-takes-wbo-light-heavy-belt-with-tko-of-cleverly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovalev takes WBO light heavy belt with TKO of Cleverly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff, Wales (Sports Network) &#8211; Sergey Kovalev stopped previously unbeaten champion Nathan Cleverly in the fourth round to win the WBO light heavyweight title in a stunning result on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalev (22-0-1, 20 KO) dominated the fight from the opening bell and sent Cleverly (26-1) to the canvas twice in a third round in which the champ barely survived. The Russian challenger kept landing damaging blows in the fourth, including a right hook that again knocked Cleverly down and prompted referee Terry O&#8217;Connor to stop the bout 29 seconds into the round.<\/p>\n<p>Cleverly was making his sixth defense of the belt he won via a unaminous decision over Nadjib Mohammedi in December of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff, Wales (Sports Network) &#8211; Sergey Kovalev stopped previously unbeaten champion Nathan Cleverly in the fourth round to win the WBO light heavyweight title in a stunning result on Saturday. Kovalev (22-0-1, 20 KO) dominated the fight from the opening bell and sent Cleverly (26-1) to the canvas twice in a third round in which [&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-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}