{"id":63640,"date":"2016-10-03T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63640"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:08:38","slug":"petr-petrov-earns-mandatory-wba-lightweight-title-shot-with-stoppage-over-michael-perez-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63640","title":{"rendered":"Petr Petrov Earns Mandatory WBA Lightweight Title Shot with Stoppage Over Michael Perez &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63640\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=63640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-63641 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/686d93ca-46b8-4d86-9141-8e2df213b068-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"686d93ca-46b8-4d86-9141-8e2df213b068\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Photo by Kyte Monroe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Petr Petrov (38-4-2, 19 KO&#8217;s) earned a mandatory world title shot at the WBA Lightweight title with a stoppage after 6 rounds over Michael Perez in a scheduled 12 round bout at the Fantasy Springs Casino Resort in Indio, California.<\/p>\n<p>In round 2, Perez was bloodied over his right eye, and Petrov was cut on his forehead. Later in the round, Petrov dropped Perez with a hard right to the head. Petrov continued the assault as he battered and hurt Perez with evenly dispersed punches to the head and body. As the blood continued over Perez&#8217;s right eye, Petrov never let up. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finally, trainer Robert Garcia decided his fighter had enough and stopped the fight after the 6th round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to thank everybody who made this win possible. My wife Carolina, My family back home in Spain and Russia. This victory is what I have been working for to be so close to a world title shot. This was one of the best training camps I have had, and I want to thank my trainer\/ manager Danny Zamora and my strength and conditioning coach Jerry Arias,&#8221; said Petrov. &#8220;Mike Perez is a true warrior, and he came to fight, and it was great fight. All I want to do is go home to Spain get some rest and wait for the phone call from my promoter to let me know when I will be fighting for the world title.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banner Promotions President, Artie Pelullo stated, &#8220;Petr looked sensational, He has been getting better every fight, and this is the best he has looked. He has really earned his title opportunity. In his last 6 bouts the combined record of his opponents is 135-24-5. Now we will look to make the WBA world title bout as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6_DuiGQD5Nw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kyte Monroe Petr Petrov (38-4-2, 19 KO&#8217;s) earned a mandatory world title shot at the WBA Lightweight title with a stoppage after 6 rounds over Michael Perez in a scheduled 12 round bout at the Fantasy Springs Casino Resort in Indio, California. In round 2, Perez was bloodied over his right eye, and [&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":[15979],"class_list":["post-63640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-petr-petrov-earns-mandatory-wba-lightweight-title-shot-with-stoppage-over-michael-perez-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63640","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=63640"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}