{"id":18746,"date":"2024-06-16T13:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gervonta-davis-knocks-out-frank-martin-to-retain-wba-title\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T13:23:32","slug":"gervonta-davis-knocks-out-frank-martin-to-retain-wba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gervonta-davis-knocks-out-frank-martin-to-retain-wba-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis knocks out Frank Martin to retain WBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gervonta Davis knocked Frank Martin out in the eighth round to retain his WBA lightweight title in Las Vegas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis backed his fellow American onto the ropes before connecting with a left uppercut and left hook to send Martin to the canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis, nicknamed the Tank, stood on top of the ropes and did a backflip into the ring in celebration as he extended his record to 30-0, including 28 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is Martin&#8217;s first loss in 19 professional fights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis was making his first appearance in the ring since inflicting the first defeat in Ryan Garcia&#8217;s career in April 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garcia was at the bout with Martin and spoke to Davis afterwards, including showing him a message on his T-shirt asking for a rematch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c8443nvyw8jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gervonta Davis knocked Frank Martin out in the eighth round to retain his WBA lightweight title in Las Vegas. Davis backed his fellow American onto the ropes before connecting with a left uppercut and left hook to send Martin to the canvas. Davis, nicknamed the Tank, stood on top of the ropes and did a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18747,"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\/18746"}],"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=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18748,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions\/18748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}