{"id":136701,"date":"2016-10-27T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136701\/explosive-night-of-boxing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:24:15","slug":"explosive-night-of-boxing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/10\/27\/explosive-night-of-boxing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive night of boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a night of hard-hitting action at the Southpaw Showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive box-and-dine evening that featured five action-packed bouts was hosted by Emperors Palace, in association with Golden Gloves, recently.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The bouts saw some of SA\u2019s top boxers giving their all in the ring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/20161022-_LP_6757-Custom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136746\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/20161022-_LP_6757-Custom-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"20161022-_LP_6757 (Custom)\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Results on the fight-card:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Nathan Hammond took on Zamelo Dludu in the junior middleweight division. Hammond won the bout in the third round by technical knock out (TKO).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fan favourite Deejay Kriel beat Nyelasani Thagambege by TKO in the fifth round of the Strawweight Gauteng title bout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/20161022-_LP_0710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136745\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/20161022-_LP_0710-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"20161022-_LP_0710\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seasoned professional Hekkie Budler beat Siyabonga Siyo for the WBA Pan African Junior Flyweight title after a gruelling 12-round fight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136709\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/44GCNSPORTBOXI2_592692.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136709\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/44GCNSPORTBOXI2_592692-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Hekkie Budler (left) and Siyabonga Siyo faced-off in the WBA Pan African Junior Flyweight bout. Photo by: Nick Lourens.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/44GCNSPORTBOXI2_592692-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/44GCNSPORTBOXI2_592692-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2016\/10\/44GCNSPORTBOXI2_592692.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hekkie Budler (left) and Siyabonga Siyo faced-off in the WBA Pan African Junior Flyweight bout. Photo by: Nick Lourens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris van Heerden from SA beat Sacky Shikukutu from Namibia for the WBA Pan African Welterweight title.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Kevin Lerena from SA beat Micki Nielsen of Denmark in their 10-round International Cruiserweight division bout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other articles \u00a0you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124823\/ibo-minimumweight-champion-crowned-at-emperors\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBO minimumweight champion crowned at Emperors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120131\/the-brawl-for-it-all\/\">The brawl for it all<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='60a3209dbc3861b7a2d4c42442488e10'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all out action at the Golden Gloves\u2019 Southpaw Showdown box and dine held at Emperors Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":136705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,11,3],"tags":[1120,8297,1012,1003,980,972,1106,979,969,2730,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-136701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-boxing","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-emperors-palace","tag-entertainment-2","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Boxing","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","Emperors Palace","entertainment","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}