{"id":16631,"date":"2024-04-26T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-billam-smith-to-defend-wbo-title-against-richard-riakporhe\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T10:12:42","slug":"chris-billam-smith-to-defend-wbo-title-against-richard-riakporhe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-billam-smith-to-defend-wbo-title-against-richard-riakporhe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Billam-Smith to defend WBO title against Richard Riakporhe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Billam-Smith has remained unbeaten since, including retaining the cruiserweight crown by beating Mateusz Masternak in Bournemouth in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Richard is a good fighter, but I&#8217;ve improved hugely since we last met and he&#8217;s going to be in for a terrible night,&#8221; Billam-Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Crystal Palace fan Riakporhe, 34, posted on social media platform X that fighting at Selhurst Park is &#8220;a dream come true&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve beaten him once and I&#8217;m ready to do it again,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This time it&#8217;s not going to the judges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Riakporhe was British cruiserweight champion from 2019 to 2020, and is unbeaten in his professional career, his most recent victory coming against Dylan Bregeon in November 2023. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz74yw4pwleo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Billam-Smith has remained unbeaten since, including retaining the cruiserweight crown by beating Mateusz Masternak in Bournemouth in December 2023. &#8220;Richard is a good fighter, but I&#8217;ve improved hugely since we last met and he&#8217;s going to be in for a terrible night,&#8221; Billam-Smith said. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace fan Riakporhe, 34, posted on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16631\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}