{"id":47668,"date":"2014-11-15T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47668"},"modified":"2014-11-15T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T01:35:42","slug":"donnie-nietes-defeats-carlos-velarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47668","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Nietes DEFEATS Carlos Velarde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;793&#8243;]<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47668 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47668 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2320 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/reyesglovesheader1.jpg\" alt=\"reyesglovesheader\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>WBO junior flyweight champion Donnie Nietes (34-1-4, 20 KOs) punished Carlos \u201cChapito\u201d Velarde (26-4-1, 14 KOs) for seven rounds to retain his title on Saturday night at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City, Philippines. Velarde\u2019s corner saved their man from a further beating by keeping him on the stool after seven. The two-division world champion Nietes, who has reigned since September 2007 and will surpass Filipino legend Flash Elorde\u2019s seven year\/three month championship run in January, is now considering a move to the flyweight division.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In other action, jr flyweight Milan Melindo (32-1, 12 KOs) outpointed Saul Juarez (20-4, 11 KOs) over twelve rounds in an IBF elimination bout. Scores were 116-112, 115-113, 118-111.<\/p>\n<p>WBO\/IBF strawweight champion Francisco Rodriguez Jr (16-2-1, 11 KOs) and Jomar Fajardo (14-5-2, 7 KOs) battled to a draw in a non-title flyweight ten rounder. Scores were 98-92 Rodriguez, 96-94 Fajardo, 95-95.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten jr featherweight Albert Pagara (22-0, 15 KOs) dropped Raul Hirales (22-4-1, 11 KOs) in round three and cruised to a twelve round 120-107, 120-107, 119-108 win.<\/p>\n<p>In an upset, former WBO strawweight champion Merlito Sabillo (23-2-1, 12 KOs) was stopped in round four by journeyman Faris Nenggo (9-6-3, 3 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Featherweight AJ Banal (32-2-1, 22 KOs) outpointed Maxsaisai Sithsaithong (15-6, 4 KOs) over ten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">RSR Is NOW Hiring Boxing Writers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[poll id=&#8221;793&#8243;] WBO junior flyweight champion Donnie Nietes (34-1-4, 20 KOs) punished Carlos \u201cChapito\u201d Velarde (26-4-1, 14 KOs) for seven rounds to retain his title on Saturday night at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City, Philippines. Velarde\u2019s corner saved their man from a further beating by keeping him on the stool after seven. The two-division [&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":[11092],"class_list":["post-47668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-donnie-nietes-defeats-carlos-velarde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47668","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=47668"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}