{"id":171038,"date":"2018-07-15T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T08:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171038"},"modified":"2018-07-15T04:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T08:57:25","slug":"tepora-downs-mexican-foe-to-claim-wba-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/15\/tepora-downs-mexican-foe-to-claim-wba-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tepora downs Mexican foe to claim WBA belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137990\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/734124559_563ecd801d_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137990\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/734124559_563ecd801d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Jhack Tepora became the new interim WBA featherweight champion after defeating Edivaldo Ortega in the co-main event of the &quot;Fight of Champions&quot; at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday. (Photo by Kristin Wall\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/734124559_563ecd801d_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/734124559_563ecd801d_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jhack Tepora became the new interim WBA featherweight champion after defeating Edivaldo Ortega in the co-main event of the &#8220;Fight of Champions&#8221; at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kwdesigns\/734124559\/in\/photolist-27SzDZ-npCP2j-oW3LQq-dSLkLM-oYz2jo-3b6ou-QXqrem-9bcqsH-H5Hu35-5E8gp3-sHC6yq-RwxrK3-9cTjgE-zxmx9E-ocZHz7-zxmxhW-NchqcG-egXDQ-PMd2eM-gZ8bes-fVusG5-9fvNAh-fdsTHZ-n2mvyk-MnoMPj-TsARXN-5UmCtT-dSLjm6-kWZZc-9fvNmJ-juHLct-r6D4RF-kxgi-9b3KGD-eb2yBX-SWjUB8-oV9nEw-nSfShi-d9zFey-oW7p6e-qTMc1U-zAxCCF-cQJ6HY-XJdzJc-9bcxjc-qgrxv1-9LDWNQ-9gGY2N-gHH8J5-5UZPTY\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kwdesigns\/\">Kristin Wall\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Before Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao even steps in for his title bout against Lucas Matthysse in Kuala Lumpur, a Filipino world boxing champion was crowned.<\/p>\n<p>Jhack Tepora became the new interim WBA featherweight champion after defeating Edivaldo Ortega in the co-main event of the &#8220;Fight of Champions&#8221; at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A late ninth round haymaker was all the Cebuano native needed to beat his Mexican opponent via stoppage.<\/p>\n<p>Tepora found an opening to connect to send Ortega down, and despite Ortega making the eight-count, Tepora charged through and went for a flurry, forcing the referee to declare the technical knockout at the 2:38 mark of Round 9.<\/p>\n<p>Tepora remains unbeaten after 22 fights, while Ortega suffered his second loss with 26 wins and one draw.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mig Elorde scored a third round knockout win against Ratchanon Sawangsoda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Before Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao even steps in for his title bout against Lucas Matthysse in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[53287,53286,53288],"class_list":["post-171038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-edivaldo-ortega","tag-jhack-tepora","tag-wba-belt","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171038","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=171038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}