{"id":182320,"date":"2016-01-17T09:57:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T09:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182320"},"modified":"2016-01-17T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T09:57:54","slug":"wilder-retains-wbc-heavyweight-title-with-brutal-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182320","title":{"rendered":"Wilder retains WBC heavyweight title with brutal knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder has retained the WBC world heavyweight championship, defeating Polish challenger Artur Szpilka with a brutal ninth-round knockout.<\/p>\n<p>It was not a pretty finish as Szpilka looked inside for an opening only to be clobbered by a heavy straight right hand to the jaw that sent the challenger spiralling to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Szpilka was stretchered out of the arena as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish boxer started the fight well and looked the bigger aggressor of the two as Wilder adopted a more measured approach, looking to avoid any direct hits and land his counter punches.<\/p>\n<p>The champ had some struggles coming to grips with Szpilka\u2019s southpaw stance, but once he found his mark he did not miss.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the night, Charlies Martin won the vacant IBF heavyweight championship, defeating an injured Vyacheslav Glazkov who lost after falling and tearing his ACL in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nCredit: Pulsesports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deontay Wilder has retained the WBC world heavyweight championship, defeating Polish challenger Artur Szpilka with a brutal ninth-round knockout. It was not a pretty finish as Szpilka looked inside for an opening only to be clobbered by a heavy straight right hand to the jaw that sent the challenger spiralling to the floor. Szpilka was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[1345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182320","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}