{"id":296449,"date":"2023-05-14T03:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296449"},"modified":"2023-05-14T05:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:59:26","slug":"aussie-boxer-wins-world-title-in-dominant-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=296449","title":{"rendered":"Aussie boxer wins world title in dominant victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia has a new boxing<\/a> world champion.<\/p>\n

Melbourne local 32-year-old \ufeffJason Moloney dominated Vincent Astrolabio in California on Sunday to win the WBO bantamweight title.<\/p>\n

While one judge \ufeffscored the fight a 114-114 draw, the other two scored justly to award it to the Aussie for a majority decision win.<\/p>\n

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Making the victory all the more impressive was Moloney later revealed he had broken his hand "in the third or fourth round", but fought on for the title.<\/p>\n

\"Vincent\"Jason<\/p>\n

\ufeffFilipino brawler Astrolabio attempted to use his power punching to rattle the Aussie, but Moloney's class shone through as he used his jab to win most of the rounds.<\/p>\n

The two judges rightly scored it 115-113 and 116-112\ufeff in favour of the winner.<\/p>\n

When the drawn card was read out, one ESPN ringside commentator noted, "they tried to rob him".<\/p>\n

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Only last week in Mexico Australian fighter Stevie Spark was robbed of victory by some dodgy scoring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffIt didn't matter for Moloney, though, who brings home his first world title belt.<\/p>\n

His twin brother, Andrew, also fights Sunday for his own world title.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Australia has a new boxing world champion. Melbourne local 32-year-old \ufeffJason Moloney dominated Vincent Astrolabio in California on Sunday to win the WBO bantamweight title. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296454,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296449\/revisions\/296454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}