{"id":7698,"date":"2013-11-10T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/garcia-drops-martinez-to-capture-wbo-super-featherweight-belt\/"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:11:00","slug":"garcia-drops-martinez-to-capture-wbo-super-featherweight-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/garcia-drops-martinez-to-capture-wbo-super-featherweight-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia drops Martinez to capture WBO super featherweight belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Miguel Angel Garcia dropped reigning champion Roman Martinez with a devastating body blow in the eighth round on Friday to capture the WBO super featherweight title at American Bank Center.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia (33-0, 28 KOs) was knocked down by a right hand in the second round, but dominated from there before dropping Martinez (27-2-2, 16 KOs) for the 10 count with a left-handed body shot in the eighth round.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday&#8217;s card, Demetrius Andrade claimed the vacant WBO junior middleweight title with a split decision over Vanes Martirosyan.<\/p>\n<p>Andrade (20-0, 13 KOs) won on scores of 117-110, 114-113, and 112-115 to defeat Martirosyan (33-1-1, 21 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nicholas Walters (23-0, 19 KOs) retained his WBO featherweight title with a dominating fourth-round TKO over Alberto Garza (25-6, 20 KOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Miguel Angel Garcia dropped reigning champion Roman Martinez with a devastating body blow in the eighth round on Friday to capture the WBO super featherweight title at American Bank Center. Garcia (33-0, 28 KOs) was knocked down by a right hand in the second round, but dominated from there before [&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-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","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=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}