{"id":270059,"date":"2020-09-27T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270059"},"modified":"2020-09-27T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T11:45:04","slug":"casimero-kos-ghanian-foe-to-keep-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/27\/casimero-kos-ghanian-foe-to-keep-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Casimero KOs Ghanian foe to keep belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_270060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270060\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sports-casimero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270060\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sports-casimero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sports-casimero.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sports-casimero-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-270060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A devastating second round knockdown set the tone for Casimero&#8217;s dominance before eventually calling it a day in the next round. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 John Riel Casimero remains the WBO bantamweight champion after knocking out Ghanian opponent Duke Micah on Sunday (Philippine Time) at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>A devastating second round knockdown set the tone for Casimero&#8217;s dominance before eventually calling it a day in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Micah actually had a bright moment in Round 1, connecting on a right hook that momentarily rocked Casimero.<\/p>\n<p>But come Round 2, Casimero sent Micah down with a left hook before pummeling him the rest of the round.<\/p>\n<p>Micah barely survived Round 2 and needed a clearance from the ring physician before referee Steve Willis started Round 3.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of upper cuts from Casimero rocked Micah so bad that Willis stepped in to keep him from further damage.<\/p>\n<p>Casimero moved to 30-4 in his career with 21 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p>Micah, on the other hand, suffered his first career loss after winning his first 24 bouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 John Riel Casimero remains the WBO bantamweight champion after knocking out Ghanian opponent Duke Micah on Sunday (Philippine Time) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":270060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270059","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\/270059","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270061,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270059\/revisions\/270061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}