{"id":380746,"date":"2024-03-31T02:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=380746"},"modified":"2024-03-31T05:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T05:03:19","slug":"lethal-hit-floors-zerafa-in-crushing-aussie-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=380746","title":{"rendered":"Lethal hit floors Zerafa in crushing Aussie defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

An American's lethal left land delivered Australia's Michael Zerafa<\/a> a crushing defeat in Las Vegas on Sunday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

Cuba's Erislandy Lara ended the man nicknamed "Pretty Boy" in the second round of their fight in Sin City, beating his rival to retain the WBA middleweight title.<\/p>\n

Lara's punch sent Zerafa crashing into the ropes, and although the 32-year-old Victorian managed to return to his feet as the referee counted, his fate was sealed when he stumbled back into the ropes.<\/p>\n

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The referee called the fight off, dealing the 40-year-old Cuban victory to the roars, cheers and whistles of the crowd.<\/p>\n

"Listen, a guy like Lara, yes, he is ageing, but he is ageing gracefully," said American boxing great Andre Ward on the Main Event coverage.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

"His IQ allows him to overcome what he lost getting older\ufeff, but one thing he hasn't lost is accuracy and power, and that's what we saw on display tonight."<\/p>\n

Ward added that Lara appeared to be "taking a walk around the block" in the fight.<\/p>\n

Lara, also known as "The American Dream", has now won his past three fights via either KO or TKO.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Zerafa's loss ended a 15-fight winning streak stretching back to 2016.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"At least he is conscious after a shot like that," said commentator Mauro Ranallo on the Main Event broadcast.<\/p>\n

Zerafa's bout against Lara preceded Australian superstar Tim Tszyu's world title unification fight against American beanstalk Sebastian Fundora.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An American's lethal left land delivered Australia's Michael Zerafa a crushing defeat in Las Vegas on Sunday (AEDT). Cuba's Erislandy Lara ended the man nicknamed […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380748,"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\/380746"}],"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=380746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380749,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380746\/revisions\/380749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}