{"id":178743,"date":"2021-12-08T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=178743"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:02:31","slug":"wbc-india-title-chennais-sabari-j-defeats-chandigarhs-akashdeep-singh-to-win-inaugural-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/08\/wbc-india-title-chennais-sabari-j-defeats-chandigarhs-akashdeep-singh-to-win-inaugural-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC India title: Chennai&#8217;s Sabari J defeats Chandigarh&#8217;s Akashdeep Singh to win inaugural championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HyderabadDec 7 (AFP): Chennai&#8217;s Sabari J became the inaugural winner of the World Boxing Council&#8217;s (WBC) India welterweight title, defeating the more experienced Akashdeep Singh of Chandigarh in an eight-round bout here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabari prevailed in a majority decision of 76-76, 79-73 and 79-73 in the professional event &#8216;Hell&#8217;s Bay&#8217;, promoted by Raja Prashanth Singh of TIAR (The Indian Art Revolution) at the Gachibowli Stadium here late last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the WBC Asia silver lightweight title bout, Karthik Satish Kumar defeated Hero Tito of indonesia in a hard-fought eight-round encounter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar won a unanimous decision of 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that Sabari has won the inaugural India title, he has to defend it at regular intervals against other ranked boxers from India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 24-Year-old had four wins and one loss in his previous fights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made his professional boxing debut in January last year, just two months prior to the COVID-19 lockdowns.<br \/>\nThe 27-year-old Akashdeep had come into the fight with a record of eight wins and one loss in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HyderabadDec 7 (AFP): Chennai&#8217;s Sabari J became the inaugural winner of the World Boxing Council&#8217;s (WBC) India welterweight title, defeating the more experienced Akashdeep Singh of Chandigarh in an eight-round bout here. Sabari prevailed in a majority decision of 76-76, 79-73 and 79-73 in the professional event &#8216;Hell&#8217;s Bay&#8217;, promoted by Raja Prashanth Singh of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}