{"id":63413,"date":"2016-09-25T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63413"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:48:46","slug":"a-new-welterweight-champion-is-crowned-at-bellator-kickboxing-budapest-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63413","title":{"rendered":"A New Welterweight Champion is Crowned at \u201cBELLATOR KICKBOXING: BUDAPEST\u201d &#8211; Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63413\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63414 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bellator_gala_Syma_146-300x200.png\" alt=\"Bellator_gala_Syma_146\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Bellator Kickboxing returned to Spike TV on Friday night from Budapest, Hungary and by the conclusion of the evening, the promotion had crowned a new welterweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event of &#8220;Bellator Kickboxing: Budapest,&#8221; Zoltan Laszak (11-2) defeated the immensely more experienced Karim Ghajji (96-13) via unanimous decision, taking away the belt that Ghajji had earned following his performance at &#8220;Bellator Kickboxing: Torino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the welterweight world title bout, the always-exciting Raymond Daniels (12-3) returned to action against Zsolt Benedek (15-4) of Hungary. The man many fans refer to as &#8220;RD The Goat,&#8221; utilized his highlight-reel style of offense to defeat Benedek via unanimous decision in front of his fellow Hungarians, improving to 3-0 under the Bellator Kickboxing banner.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following her controversial split decision defeat at \u201cBellator: Dynamite 2,\u201d Denise Kielholtz (45-3) returned to form against Renata Lantos (5-5), taking home a unanimous decision victory. Following what was arguably the most important fight of Kielholz\u2019s career, the talented Dutch kick boxer now sets her sights on a rematch with Gloria Peritore at the recently announced &#8220;Bellator Kickboxing: Florence&#8221; in December<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the main card action, the man that defeated Melvin Manhoef earlier this year, Alexandru Negrea (10-3), improved his record at the expense of Ali El Ameri (42-11-2), taking home the win on all three of the ringside judges&#8217; scorecards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zM1qQiFxMc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator Kickboxing returned to Spike TV on Friday night from Budapest, Hungary and by the conclusion of the evening, the promotion had crowned a new welterweight champion. In the main event of &#8220;Bellator Kickboxing: Budapest,&#8221; Zoltan Laszak (11-2) defeated the immensely more experienced Karim Ghajji (96-13) via unanimous decision, taking away the belt that Ghajji [&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":[15922],"class_list":["post-63413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-a-new-welterweight-champion-is-crowned-at-bellator-kickboxing-budapest-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63413","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=63413"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}