{"id":36952,"date":"2014-03-23T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36952"},"modified":"2014-03-23T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T16:19:40","slug":"hairon-socarras-wins-wba-latino-title-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36952","title":{"rendered":"Hairon Socarras Wins WBA Latino Title &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36952\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2487\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxingringheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/boxingringheader1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Highly touted prospect from Cuba, Hairon \u2018El Maja\u2019 Socarras (11-0-1, 8 KOs) scored a impressive fourth round knockout over Dominican Aneudy Matos (13-11-1, 9 KOs) to grab the vacant WBA Latino super bantamweight belt on Saturday night at the Carlos \u2018Teo\u2019 Cruz Coliseum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Matos, who visited the canvas in the first, and fourth round, left the ring in bad shape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opponent ( Matos ) came to win, to give everything, but I came determined to take the title convincingly because here, I\u2019m not the localist\u201d said Socarr\u00e1s from Lisa, city of La Havana.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018El Maja\u2019, who is trained by Jorge Rubio in Miami, had a spectacular amateur boxing career with a total of 180 fights, 75 of those in his native Cuba. In his career, he was Provincial Champion at 10 and 11 years old in Cuba. In the United States, he was a four times Florida State Champion, twice Silver Gloves Champion, and Golden Gloves Champion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his short professional boxing career, Socarr\u00e1s had already two notable wins over prospects, Josh Bowles, and Sergio Montes de Oca, who where defeated by knockout and unanimous decision respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/2014\/02\/03\/former-ibf-featherweight-champion-tom-boom-boom-johnson-goes-on-the-record\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Read: Former IBF Featherweight Champion Tom \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Johnson Goes on the Record<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly touted prospect from Cuba, Hairon \u2018El Maja\u2019 Socarras (11-0-1, 8 KOs) scored a impressive fourth round knockout over Dominican Aneudy Matos (13-11-1, 9 KOs) to grab the vacant WBA Latino super bantamweight belt on Saturday night at the Carlos \u2018Teo\u2019 Cruz Coliseum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Matos, who visited the canvas in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10135],"class_list":["post-36952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-hairon-socarras-wins-wba-latino-title-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36952"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}