{"id":8846,"date":"2011-03-20T18:38:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2011-03-20T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:38:24","slug":"paulus-moses-stops-miguel-lombardo-in-the-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8846","title":{"rendered":"Paulus Moses Stops Miguel Lombardo in the 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8846\" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=8846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8847\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Paulus-Moses (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Paulus-Moses-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Former World Boxing Association lightweight champion Paulus \u201cThe Hitman\u201d Moses (27-1, 19 KOs) bolstered his chances of another title shot on Saturday by scoring a first-round knockout over Argentine opponent Miguel Lombardo at the Windhoek Country Club Resort in Namibia. Moses landed a picture-perfect body shot near the end of the opening stanza that sent Lombardo to the mat where the referee counted him out at just 2:59 into the contest.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love fighting in my hometown of Windhoek in front of the people who know me best and support me most,\u201d Moses said after the victory. \u201cMy goal is to fight for another world championship, and the people of Windhoek provide me all the inspiration I need.<br \/>\n\u201cDon King is my promoter and he said I would win by knockout, and that is just what happened. I know he believes in me and will soon find the opportunity for me to become champion again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King was pleased his fighter did what was expected of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaulus Moses and all of his fans in Namibia are serving notice to the rest of the boxing world that another title fight is warranted,\u201d King said. \u201cPaulus fights for himself, his hometown and his country. That is what makes him great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moses scored a fifth-round technical knockout victory over Sergio Omar Priotti, also from Argentina, in a spirited contest held on Nov. 25 in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>Moses traveled to Japan in 2008 and defeated Yusuke Kobori to win the WBA lightweight crown. Interim WBA lightweight champion Miguel Acosta, from Venezuela, trekked to Windhoek for a showdown with Moses on May 29. 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Moses landed a picture-perfect body shot near the end of the opening stanza that sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,2972],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-paulus-moses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","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=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}