{"id":180870,"date":"2018-09-10T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=180870"},"modified":"2018-09-10T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:56:30","slug":"nietes-palicte-battle-draw-filipino-title-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/10\/nietes-palicte-battle-draw-filipino-title-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Nietes, Palicte battle to draw in all-Filipino title bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180871\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Donnie-Nietes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180871\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Donnie-Nietes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Donnie-Nietes.jpg 950w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Donnie-Nietes-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Donnie-Nietes-768x776.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nietes seemed to have put on a clinic on Palicte through his veteran smarts, connecting primarily on counter-punches and openings against his younger and taller foe, especially in the latter rounds or right after Palicte got things going in the first four rounds. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10209170836622681&amp;set=a.1318842105798&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dsnakeman?tn-str=*F\">Donnie Liboon Nietes\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Donnie Nietes failed in his first try to become a four-division world champion after his match against Ashton Palicte for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) super flyweight title ended in a split draw at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California, USA on Sunday (Philippine Time).<\/p>\n<p>In the second all-Filipino world boxing title fight of the year, Nietes seemed to have put on a clinic on Palicte through his veteran smarts, connecting primarily on counter-punches and openings against his younger and taller foe, especially in the latter rounds or right after Palicte got things going in the first four rounds.<\/p>\n<p>However, only one judge found the match in Nietes&#8217; favor with a 118-110 scorecard.<\/p>\n<p>Another judge actually had it 116-112 in favor of Palicte, while the third judge scored a 114-all draw.<\/p>\n<p>With the belt remaining without an owner, it is highly possible that Nietes and Palicte will lock horns again in a rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Donnie Nietes failed in his first try to become a four-division world champion after his match against Ashton Palicte &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":180871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180870","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=180870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}