{"id":395931,"date":"2018-01-28T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395931"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:20:23","slug":"gameboy-tagoe-stops-saucedo-10th-round-retain-ibo-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395931","title":{"rendered":"‘Gameboy’ Tagoe stops Saucedo in 10th Round to retain IBO title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s Emmanuel \u2018Gameboy\u2019 Tagoe defeated Argentina\u2019s Fernando David Saucedo in a controversial 10th round Technical Knockout (TKO), to defend his International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Lightweight belt\u00a0on Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at the Bukom Boxing Arena.<\/p>\n

The much-publicized fight failed to live up to expectations as both boxers failed to explode on the night.<\/p>\n

Tagoe dominated the early rounds and dropped Saucedo in the 2nd round, but the Argentine beat count.<\/p>\n

Saucedo in round three was inactive as Tagoe dominated him with persistent jabs.<\/p>\n

Tagoe scored his second knockdown in the fight with a straight right-hand jab into the Argentine\u2019s jaw, but Saucedo again beat the referee\u2019s count.<\/p>\n

Tagoe piled pressure on Saucedo in round five, but the former world title contender remained resolute<\/p>\n

The Ghanaian, in round six, taunted his opponent with some dancing moves landing some telling punches which forced the Argentine to defend deep.<\/p>\n

Round seven was the best moment for Saucedo as he landed some clean shots, but Tagoe didn’t despair as he fired back in a true champion\u2019s fashion.<\/p>\n

Tagoe went for a more aggressive tactic in the eighth and ninth rounds looking for a\u00a0knockout but Saucedo proved too strong as he received Tagoe\u2019s best shots with ease.<\/p>\n

In the tenth round, Tagoe pressed and landed a punch on the back of Saucedo\u2019s head before connecting a left hook that sent the Argentine crashing to the mat.<\/p>\n

Saucedo rose up and complained to the referee about what he deemed as an illegal blow, but to the surprise of many, referee Roger Banor\u00a0stopped the fight.<\/p>\n

The decision from the referee received a lot of backlash from most of the fans at the Bukom Arena.<\/p>\n

Tagoe will now be eyeing a possible unification bout with either the WBA or the WBO lightweight champion.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By Citi\u00a0Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghana\u2019s Emmanuel \u2018Gameboy\u2019 Tagoe defeated Argentina\u2019s Fernando David Saucedo in a controversial 10th round Technical Knockout (TKO), to defend his International Boxing Organisation (IBO) Lightweight belt\u00a0on Saturday\u00a0at the Bukom Boxing Arena. The much-publicized fight failed to live up to expectations as both boxers failed to explode on the night. Tagoe dominated the early rounds and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":395932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[16563],"class_list":["post-395931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing","tag-emmanuel-gameboy-tagoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395931","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=395931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}