{"id":124763,"date":"2015-06-14T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=124763"},"modified":"2015-06-14T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:56:07","slug":"wilder-beats-eric-molina-to-retain-wbc-heavyweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=124763","title":{"rendered":"Wilder beats Eric Molina to retain WBC heavyweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deontay Wilder defended his WBC heavyweight title with a ninth-round knockout of Eric Molina in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 29-year-old, who beat Bermane Stiverne in January to become the first American to hold a heavyweight title since 2007, is unbeaten in 34 fights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Molina, 33, who had lost two of his 25 bouts, was knocked down in the fourth round and twice again in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn the ninth a straight right spun him around and the follow-up punches sent him down again and ended the contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wilder&#8217;s victory over Stiverne at the start of the year remains the only time he has been taken to a full 12 rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 6ft 7in fighter could now target a meeting with Wladimir Klitschko &#8211; unbeaten since 2004 &#8211; who holds the other belts, and said this title defence would be the &#8220;first of many&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder defended his WBC heavyweight title with a ninth-round knockout of Eric Molina in Alabama. The 29-year-old, who beat Bermane Stiverne in January to become the first American to hold a heavyweight title since 2007, is unbeaten in 34 fights. Molina, 33, who had lost two of his 25 bouts, was knocked down in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":124765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,38],"class_list":["post-124763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}