{"id":76634,"date":"2016-05-31T05:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76634"},"modified":"2016-05-31T05:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:22:57","slug":"pinay-pug-challenge-world-champ-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/31\/pinay-pug-challenge-world-champ-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinay pug to challenge world champ in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76635\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boxer.guro_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76635\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boxer.guro_.jpg\" alt=\"The 26-year-old Guro is now in her light training at the MP-Highlands Gym in Manila, according to her business manager Brico Santig of Highland Promotions.  (PNA photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 26-year-old Guro is now in her light training at the MP-Highlands Gym in Manila, according to her business manager Brico Santig of Highland Promotions. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DAVAO CITY \u2013 Filipina boxer Norj Guro of Iligan City will be challenging reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) world female minimum weight champion Yuko Kuroki on June 6 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Guro is now in her light training at the MP-Highlands Gym in Manila, according to her business manager Brico Santig of Highland Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Guro has a record of 7 wins, 5 loses, 1 draw with 4 knockouts while Kuroki is toting 15 wins, 4 loses, 1 draw with 7 KOs.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Kuroki\u2019s 4th title-defense of the crown she won from fellow Japanese Mari Ando via a unanimous decision last April 17, 2014 in Osaka, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Japanese southpaw retained it by a split decision only against Katia Gutierrez of Mexico in her first title-defense on November 1, 2014 in Fukuoka, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Kuroka then beat another Japanese Masae Akitaya by a UD on April 9, 2015 in Osaka before stopping Thailand\u2019s Kanittha Saknarong by a technical knockout in the 3rd round in their non-title fight on August 16 in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p>In her third defense and previous fight, Kuroka beat Mexican Nancy Franco by a UD on December 20 at the Kyuden Gym in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p>Guro, on the other hand, is coming from two back-to-back defeats from outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>She first lost by a UD to Nao Ikeyama last February 28, 2015 in Osaka then bowed also by a UD to Mexican Jessica Chavez on April 11, 2015 in Sinaloa, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Guro\u2019s last victory was a UD against Rosemarie Cruz on April 22, 2014 at the Benguet State Univerity gym in La Trinidad, Benguet.<\/p>\n<p>Guro fought but lost for the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council female flyweight crown against Buakaew OnesongchaiGym by a UD last April 24, 2013 in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>She also dropped a UD to Hee Jung Yuh in their battle for the vacant International Female Boxers Association World super flyweight title held in Gimhae City, South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY \u2013 Filipina boxer Norj Guro of Iligan City will be challenging reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) world female &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[10971,10972,10973],"class_list":["post-76634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-norj-guro","tag-wbc","tag-world-boxing-council","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76634","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=76634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}