{"id":149488,"date":"2018-01-29T02:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149488"},"modified":"2018-01-29T02:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:21:25","slug":"pinoy-pug-stops-mexican-in-1st-round-of-us-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/29\/pinoy-pug-stops-mexican-in-1st-round-of-us-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy pug stops Mexican in 1st round of US bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149492\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Romero_Duno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149492\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Romero_Duno.jpg\" alt=\"The 22-year-old boxer from Sanman Boxing Gym in General Santos City landed a right hand to the body followed by a solid right punch on the head for the knockout. (Photo from http:\/\/boxrec.com\/media\/index.php\/Romero_Duno)\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Romero_Duno.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Romero_Duno-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 22-year-old boxer from Sanman Boxing Gym in General Santos City landed a right hand to the body followed by a solid right punch on the head for the knockout. <a href=\"http:\/\/boxrec.com\/media\/index.php\/Romero_Duno\">(Photo from http:\/\/boxrec.com\/media\/index.php\/Romero_Duno)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>DAVAO CITY \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Filipino fighter Romero \u201cRuthless\u201d Duno continued his winning form by knocking out Mexican Yardley Suarez in the first round Saturday at the Forum in Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n<p>Duno\u2019s impressive victory was his third straight win in the US under the Golden Boy Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old boxer from Sanman Boxing Gym in General Santos City landed a right hand to the body followed by a solid right punch on the head for the knockout.<\/p>\n<p>He now has 16 wins with 14 knockouts against only one loss with no draw, while the 23-year-old Suarez dropped to 22W-10L-0D, 12 KOs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy with my victory. I will continue to train harder,\u201d said Duno, who is being trained by former world champion Rodel \u201cBatang Mandaue\u201d Mayol at the Freddie Roach\u2019s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuno looks very good. We are very impressed with his performance,\u201d said Dexter \u201cWang Yu\u201d Tan, Chief Finance Officer of Sanman.<\/p>\n<p>Sanman\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Jim Claude \u201cJC\u201d Manangquil on the other hand, said Duno\u2019s next fight \u201cwill probably be in the main event of ESPN Golden Boy Promotions card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Duno-Suarez 8-rounder was in the undercard of the double world championship promotion by Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions and Akihiko Honda of Teiken Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Duno had previously won by a unanimous decision against another Mexican Juan Pablo Suarez last September 23 at the Forum.<\/p>\n<p>He made his grand debut in the US with a shocking first round knockout win against then-unbeaten Mexican Christian Gonzales (16-0) last March 10 at the Belasco Theater in LA to capture the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) Youth Intercontinental Lightweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY \u2014\u00a0Filipino fighter Romero \u201cRuthless\u201d Duno continued his winning form by knocking out Mexican Yardley Suarez in the first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,44],"tags":[45044,45043],"class_list":["post-149488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-sports","tag-filipino-fighter-romero-ruthless-duno","tag-pinoy-pug-stops-mexican-in-1st-round-of-us-bout","mauthors-lito-delos-reyes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149488","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=149488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}