{"id":52652,"date":"2014-02-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52652\/explosive-boxing-coming-uporafrican-explosion-coming-soonor\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:23:02","slug":"explosive-boxing-coming-uporafrican-explosion-coming-soonor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/02\/07\/explosive-boxing-coming-uporafrican-explosion-coming-soonor\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive boxing postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming much anticipated \u201cAfrican Explosion<i>\u201d <\/i>\u00a0boxing tournament taking place at Emperors Palace has been postponed to March 1 and will be taking place in the Theatre of Marcellus.<\/p>\n<p>The previous reported date was February 15.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>WBA and IBO Strawweight Champion of the World, Hekkie &#8220;The Hexecutioner&#8221; Budler, will headline the African Explosion Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Emperors Palace Kid&#8221;, as Budler is also known, will defend both his titles in the main bout of the tournament, when he takes on Columbian Karluis Diaz, to cement his (Budler&#8217;s) position as the top ranked fighter in this division in the world.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Also fighting on the same bill will be fan favourite Johnny Muller, who takes on Wilbeforce Shihepo, of Namibia, for the WBC Silver International Light Heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Ryno Liebenberg will come up against Joey Vegas, of Uganda, for the WBC International Light Heavyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Full bout card:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featherweight &#8211; four rounds: Phumudzo Monyai vs Ricardo Hiraman<\/li>\n<li>Junior Flyweight &#8211; six rounds: Edward Disolwane vs Thabang Ramagole<\/li>\n<li>Junior Welterweight &#8211; six rounds: Moses Kamera (Botswana) vs Adam de Moor<\/li>\n<li>WBC Silver International Light Heavyweight Title &#8211; 12 rounds: Wilbeforce Shihepo (Namibia) vs Johnny Muller<\/li>\n<li>WBA\/IBO Strawweight World Title &#8211; 12 rounds: Karluis Diaz (Columbia) vs Hekkie Budler<\/li>\n<li>WBC International Light Heavyweight Title &#8211; 12 rounds: Joey Vegas (Uganda) vs Ryno Liebenberg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><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='7057cb47f57689b4a7b86f570d2cec6f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Explosion coming in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1120,980,979,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-52652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-boxing","tag-emperors-palace","tag-germiston","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Boxing","Emperors Palace","germiston","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652","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=52652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}