{"id":170944,"date":"2018-07-14T03:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T07:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170944"},"modified":"2018-07-14T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T07:28:50","slug":"saludar-battles-japanese-foe-in-first-world-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/14\/saludar-battles-japanese-foe-in-first-world-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Saludar battles Japanese foe in first world title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_138844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138844\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/boxing-1921073_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138844\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/boxing-1921073_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Froilan Saludar will try to dethrone Sho Kimura as the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight champion when they collide on July 27 in Qingdao, China. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/boxing-1921073_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/boxing-1921073_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/boxing-1921073_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Froilan Saludar will try to dethrone Sho Kimura as the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight champion when they collide on July 27 in Qingdao, China. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Another Filipino is on a quest for a world boxing title this month.<\/p>\n<p>Froilan Saludar will try to dethrone Sho Kimura as the World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight champion when they collide on July 27 in Qingdao, China.<\/p>\n<p>Saludar (28-1-2 win-draw-loss record with 19 knockouts) knocked out his last five opponents, earning him a shot at the Japanese pug&#8217;s belt, the first world title attempt in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Kimura, on the other hand, only had one defense of the title he wrested from Zou Shiming on July 28, 2017, a technical knockout win against fellow Japanese boxer Toshiyuki Igarashi right on New Year&#8217;s Eve last year.<\/p>\n<p>Since losing his pro debut, Kimura has gone unbeaten in his last 18 fights, winning his last 11.<\/p>\n<p>In another championship fight, Sonny Katiangdagho takes on Baishanbo Nasiyiwula of China for the vacant WBC Asia and WBA Asia super lightweight titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Another Filipino is on a quest for a world boxing title this month. Froilan Saludar will try to dethrone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":138844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1925,53249,53250],"class_list":["post-170944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-boxing","tag-froilan-saludar","tag-sho-kimura","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170944","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=170944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}