{"id":110130,"date":"2017-08-07T02:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T06:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=110130"},"modified":"2017-08-07T03:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T07:01:19","slug":"indian-boxer-beats-chinese-rival-but-doesnt-want-his-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/07\/indian-boxer-beats-chinese-rival-but-doesnt-want-his-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian boxer beats Chinese rival but doesn&#8217;t want his belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110135\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20604556_1539989066023158_2350559911392181674_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110135\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20604556_1539989066023158_2350559911392181674_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo by vijendersinghboxer\/Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20604556_1539989066023158_2350559911392181674_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20604556_1539989066023158_2350559911392181674_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vijendersinghboxer\/photos\/a.618344068187667.1073741826.154538724568206\/1539989066023158\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by vijendersinghboxer\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 Indian boxer Vijender Singh won his fight on Saturday and then offered to give his Chinese opponent&#8217;s belt back in a gesture of peace between the two rival nations.<\/p>\n<p>The fight against China&#8217;s Zulpikar Maimaitiali went all 10 rounds with Singh the winner in a unanimous verdict, 96-93, 95-94, 95-94.<\/p>\n<p>Singh successfully defended his WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight title and also took his opponent&#8217;s WBO Oriental super middleweight belt.<\/p>\n<p>Singh hugged top Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and other celebrities among fans at the National Sports Club of India in Mumbai, the country&#8217;s financial and entertainment capital.<\/p>\n<p>Singh then came back into the ring, took the microphone and said: \u201cI don&#8217;t want this title. I will give it back to Zulpikar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI don&#8217;t want tension on the border. It&#8217;s a message of peace. That&#8217;s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The countries have been involved in a lingering dispute over a contested region high in the Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 Indian boxer Vijender Singh won his fight on Saturday and then offered to give his Chinese opponent&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":110135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106,44],"tags":[20542,20543],"class_list":["post-110130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","category-sports","tag-vijender-singh","tag-zulpikar-maimaitiali","mauthors-ashok-sharma","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}