{"id":2603,"date":"2013-06-03T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:50:47","slug":"hand-of-stone-retains-title-by-jaime-kelly-pimentel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hand-of-Stone&#8217; retains title by Jaime Kelly Pimentel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMPBELLTOWN-based Filipino, Roberto &#8216;Hand of Stone&#8217; Lerio, retained the Australian bantamweight championship belt with a third-round knockout of Australian Brad Hore at the Royal International Convention Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, on Saturday, April 20, 2013.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lerio dropped Hore three times in the third to earn a kayo win over the dual Olympian who represented Australia at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roberto showed too much power, too much class for the challenger,&#8217; said Lerio&#8217;s trainer Todd Makelim, a Filipino-Australian who himself once held the Australian bamtamweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Lerio took the Australian bantamweight belt in April last year with a split decision over Jason Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>His brother Danilo Lerio, who boxed with the Philippine Olympic team in Sydney 2000 and returned to campaign in Australia in 2008, retired from the professional ring last year.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto&#8217;s boxing record now stands at 33 bouts from 15 wins, 17 losses and three draws. ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMPBELLTOWN-based Filipino, Roberto &#8216;Hand of Stone&#8217; Lerio, retained the Australian bantamweight championship belt with a third-round knockout of Australian Brad Hore at the Royal International Convention Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, on Saturday, April 20, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}