{"id":15267,"date":"2018-03-26T04:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/josh-oreilly-r-can-box-crack-6\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T04:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T04:33:01","slug":"josh-oreilly-r-can-box-crack-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/josh-oreilly-r-can-box-crack-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh O\\’Reilly (R) can Box or Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBA Intercontinental Lightweight <\/strong> Champion Josh O\\’Reilly <\/strong> made successful Title defense <\/strong> last Saturday in Canada. <\/h2>\n

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada (March 22, 2018) – Irish eyes were smilin\\’ last Saturday in Canada, when undefeated International Boxing Association (IBA) lightweight champion Josh \\”Dubs\\” O\\’Reilly <\/strong> made his first title defense, taking a 10-round unanimous decision over his Mexican challenger, Juan \\”El Tornado\\” Bedolla Orozco <\/strong> <\/p>\n

The special St. Patrick\\’s Day card, presented by United Promotions, was held at Hersey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old O\\’Reilly <\/strong> (11-0, 4 KOs), an Irish-Canadian fighting out of Hamilton (Canada), defeated Orozco <\/strong> by scores of 100-90, 100-90 and 99-91<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\\”I\\’m very happy with my performance, especially against such a tough opponent,\\” O\\’Reilly <\/strong> said. \\”I\\’m glad I got 10 rounds in and, overall, I think it was a good performance. <\/p>\n

\\”I\\’m looking forward to staying busy and getting back in the ring May 12th. I\\’m looking for another victory and a great show.\\” <\/p>\n

Team O\\’Reilly Celebrates Its Recent Victory <\/h2>\n

\\”Josh O\\’Reilly <\/strong> is the hottest prospect in Toronto right now and we\\’re looking to keep him busy,\\” promoter Tyler Buxton commented. His next fight will be May 12th as the co-feature with Brandon \\’Bad Boy\\’ Cook in the main event. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

Former International Boxing Federation (IBF heavyweight champion Frankie Rill (15-2, 11 KOs), stopped Argentinian knockout-artist Sebastian \\”El Grandote\\” Ignacio Ceballos (34-10-2, 26 KOs) in the opening round of the co-featured event. <\/p>\n

Canadian light heavyweight champion Tim Cronin <\/strong> (11-1-1, 2 KOs) won a six-round majority decision over previously unbeaten Argentinian Juan Cruz Correa <\/strong> (4-1-1), Canadian light heavyweights Jason Alexander <\/strong> (2-3, 2 KOs) and Darren Fletcher<\/strong>(1-4-2) battled to a six-round majority draw. <\/p>\n

Indian middleweight prospect Sukhdeep \\”Chakria\\” Singh <\/strong>, a 2012 Senior National Boxing Championship and 2011 Boxing Super Cup gold medalist as an amateur, had an impressive pro debut, knocking out Alejandro Garcia <\/strong> (2-2, 1 KO), of Mexico, in the fourth round. <\/p>\n

Undefeated Armenia-native Andranik Grigoryan <\/strong> (3-0), now fighting oit of Montreal, won a six-round unanimous decision versus previously undefeated Mexican featherweight Sergio \\”El Duende\\” Palafox <\/strong> (7-1, 2 KOs). Grigoryan <\/strong> gained invaluable experience as a key member of the Russian Boxing Team in the World Series of Boxing. <\/p>\n

Mexican super welterweight Mario Bedolla Orozzo <\/strong> (1-1-1) won a four-round split decision over pro-debuting, local favorite Karl \\”The Razor\\” Hess. <\/p>\n

Last Saturday night\\’s St. Patrick\\’s Day event was a great success <\/strong>, Buxton concluded. \\”We had a little bit of everything: close fights, split decisions, majority draws, upsets, and knockouts. And Josh O\\’Reilly won a one-sided fight versus a very tough Mexican opponent, Juan Bedolla Orozco, who made Josh work. Overall, it was a great event.\\” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IBA Intercontinental Lightweight Champion Josh O\\’Reilly made successful Title defense last Saturday in Canada. MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada (March 22, 2018) – Irish eyes were smilin\\’ last Saturday in Canada, when undefeated International Boxing Association (IBA) lightweight champion Josh \\”Dubs\\” O\\’Reilly made his first title defense, taking a 10-round unanimous decision over his Mexican challenger, Juan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalboxingassociation.com\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}