{"id":812,"date":"2020-02-08T23:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/?p=812"},"modified":"2020-02-10T00:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T00:07:31","slug":"makabu-wins-vacant-wbc-cruiserweight-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/makabu-wins-vacant-wbc-cruiserweight-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Makabu wins vacant WBC cruiserweight belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-817 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Junior-Makabu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Junior-Makabu.jpg 980w, https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Junior-Makabu-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Junior-Makabu-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ilunga Makabu won the vacant WBC cruiserweight belt with a unanimous 12-round points decision over Michal Cieslak in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Friday night.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The scores were 116-111, 115-111 and 114-112, all in favour of Makabu.<br \/>\nCieslak (19-1; 13), working from behind his jab, possibly did enough to shade the first round and also won the third round which was reported as only being two minutes at the bell.<\/p>\n<p>However, the local favourite picked up the pace in round four and scored a knockdown.<br \/>\nIn round five, Makabu\u2019s glove touched the canvas and it was ruled as a knockdown by the referee.<\/p>\n<p>Makabu, 32, who was in tremendous condition, finished strongly in the second half of the fight to win a popular decision and the belt.<br \/>\nMakabu improved his record to 27-2; 24.<\/p>\n<p>There are two South African cruiserweights, Thabiso Mchunu (22-5; 13) and IBO champion Kevin Lerena (24-1; 11), who could prove a good test for the new champion.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilunga Makabu won the vacant WBC cruiserweight belt with a unanimous 12-round points decision over&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}