{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-05T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-04-05T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T03:01:51","slug":"ko-kid-ganoy-one-step-closer-to-a-world-title-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;KO Kid&#8217; Ganoy one step closer to a world title belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Jaime K. Pimentel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asia-Pacific and Intercontinental lightweight champion <strong>Ranee Ganoy<\/strong> will be only one bout away from a world lightweight championship  if he disposes of Mexico&#8217;s <strong>Julio Diaz<\/strong>, rated 4th in the IBF (International Boxing Federation) world rankings on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>The fight will  be a world title &#8221;eliminator&#8221; staged in Dubai, with the winner challenging the IBF world lightweight champion Juan Diaz for the crown.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ganoy has been based in Sydney, Australia, for three years, earning a reputation as the fight-game\u2019s feared \u201cKO\u201d kid from the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The Ganoy-Diaz match was stitched up during the controversial split-draw decision between former world flyweight champion <strong>Vic Darchynian<\/strong> and Filipino <strong>&#8216;Z&#8217; Gorres<\/strong> in Cebu, Philippines, recently when matchmaker American <strong>Sampson Lewkovicz<\/strong> and Liverpool-based Manager <strong>Dido Bohol<\/strong> sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Ganoy (20W, 10L, 19byKO) destroyed Australia&#8217;s <strong>Robbie Peden<\/strong> in seven rounds last June before winning by decision for the first time against Indonesia&#8217;s <strong>Roberto Ricardo<\/strong> in September over 12 rounds and then demolishing Thailand\u2019s <strong>Songchai Nakbale<\/strong> in 2 rounds last November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;He has run out of opponents here in Australia and Southeast Asia, so he may have to head overseas before he becomes too old for the game,\u201d said Bohol.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the&#8217; &#8221;KO Kid&#8217; has caught the attention of boxing promoters around the world, especially from the United States where a world title match may await him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jaime K. Pimentel Asia-Pacific and Intercontinental lightweight champion Ranee Ganoy will be only one bout away from a world lightweight championship if he disposes of Mexico&#8217;s Julio Diaz, rated 4th in the IBF (International Boxing Federation) world rankings on April 18. The fight will be a world title &#8221;eliminator&#8221; staged in Dubai, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}