{"id":440367,"date":"2023-07-23T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T10:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440367"},"modified":"2023-07-23T06:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T10:51:04","slug":"kambosos-jr-beats-hughes-with-controversial-decision","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kambosos-jr-beats-hughes-with-controversial-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Kambosos Jr. beats Hughes with controversial decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-lightweight champ George Kambosos Jr. return to the victories, but after in a very controversial way \u2013 with a majority decision win against Maxi Hughes in Shawnee, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd4a ICYMI: Maxi Hughes robbed overnight in Oklahoma as the Brit wins 8-9\/12 rounds but has to settle for a 114-114, 115-113, 117-111 MD loss to George Kambosos Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KambososHughes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#KambososHughes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OGMFWKd6y8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OGMFWKd6y8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EverythingBoxing (@EverythingBoxi2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EverythingBoxi2\/status\/1683009047920881665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The judges gave 114-114, 117-111, and 115-113 in favor of George. When the result was announced, the fans booed as a disappointed Maxi shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes started the bout as an underdog but had the best fight in his career. He punched Kambosos with a left hand to the body in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Round and then sliced up George\u2019s right eye in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Round with a left punch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m shocked,&#8221; shared Maxi, who out-punched George 98-90. &#8220;Nobody thought I was as good as my opponent. Tonight, I came and beat him, and I deserved my hand to be lifted in the air. I don&#8217;t want to talk about the judges anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We triumphed in the bout by many rounds,&#8221; claimed Kambosos Jr. after his majority decision victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-lightweight champ George Kambosos Jr. return to the victories, but after in a very controversial way \u2013 with a majority decision win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18144],"news_category":[20045,14084],"gn_keywords":[18146,20554,20553],"acf":{"announce":"George won the fight according to the judges, but questions remain.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440367"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440367"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}