{"id":76409,"date":"2018-11-19T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76409"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:20:20","slug":"maurice-hooker-retains-his-wbo-junior-welterweight-champion-with-a-spectacular-tko-over-alex-saucedo-in-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76409","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Hooker Retains His WBO Junior Welterweight Champion With a Spectacular TKO Over Alex Saucedo in Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76409\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76409\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-76410 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HookerBarnett_Hoganphotos-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Maurice \u201cMighty Mo\u201d Hooker (25-0, 17 KOs) successfully defended his WBO junior welterweight world title in his return to the ring on Friday night, toppling Alex Saucedo (28-1, 18KOs) via a seventh-round TKO in Saucedo\u2019s hometown at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker\u2019s first title defense was a thrilling back-and-forth that saw Saucedo knock the champion down in the second round. Despite the knockdown, Hooker managed to overwhelm Saucedo with an assortment of combinations before finishing him off with a barrage of right hand and left hook combinations in the seventh round.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgvNkadIZF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter successfully defending my title, I feel like a true champion,\u201d Hooker said. \u201cMy goal was to give the people a show and take it out of the hands of the judges. Alex Saucedo will be back, he\u2019s a tough competitor and a great fighter. We went at it and gave the audience what they came for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Hooker has solidified his place as one of the world\u2019s best fighters in the 140 lb. division and making a claim to be among the best pound-for-pound fighters in world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaurice has developed into an elite world champion boxer in a very short time,\u201d said Roc Nation Sports boxing promoter Dino Duva. \u201cHe\u2019s getting better and better with every fight and has the potential to be champion for a long time. I\u2019m so proud of his accomplishments and salute him, along with his manager Arnie Verbeek and trainer Vince Parra, they\u2019ve all done a great job bringing him to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaurice has now won, and then defended the world title in his opponent\u2019s hometown his last two fights. I look forward to getting together with Eddie Hearn to plan Mo\u2019s next fight in 2019, with the goal of staging the bout in the champion\u2019s hometown of Dallas and airing the match on DAZN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his last fight on June 9, 2018, Hooker, who is co-promoted by Roc Nation Sports and Matchroom Boxing, entered enemy territory in opponent Terry Flanagan\u2019s hometown of Manchester, England defeating the U.K. native in a split decision victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was some performance from Mo,\u201d said Matchroom Boxing Promoter Eddie Hearn. \u201cThat\u2019s back to back victories in hostile territory and in my opinion, he is the standout man at 140 right now. I\u2019d love to see him defend his title in Dallas on the New Year and we will be sitting down with Dino and Roc Nation shortly to plan a very exciting year. DAZN viewers are in for a treat from Maurice Hooker next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Maurice \u201cMighty Mo\u201d Hooker (25-0, 17 KOs) successfully defended his WBO junior welterweight world title in his return to the ring on Friday night, toppling Alex Saucedo (28-1, 18KOs) via a seventh-round TKO in Saucedo\u2019s hometown at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. Hooker\u2019s first title defense was a thrilling back-and-forth that saw [&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":[19206],"class_list":["post-76409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-maurice-hooker-retains-his-wbo-junior-welterweight-champion-with-a-spectacular-tko-over-alex-saucedo-in-oklahoma-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76409","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=76409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}