{"id":17242,"date":"2023-12-28T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2023-12-28T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:22:39","slug":"it-was-rigged-charles-okocha-seeks-rematch-after-losing-boxing-fight-to-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17242","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Was Rigged,\u2019 Charles Okocha Seeks Rematch After Losing Boxing Fight To Portable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nollywood actor, Charles Okocha has described his recent boxing bout with Nigerian street-pop singer, Portable as rigged, calling for a rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that Charles Okocha was defeated by Portable in a recent boxing match on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Portable was declared the winner by the referee after fulfilling the qualifications to win the bout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reacting, Charles Okocha called out the referee for irregularities, alleging that Portable removed his boxing gloves during the third round, which should have resulted in immediate disqualification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He wrote, \u201cHow can you give up in the 3rd round when we have 4 rounds? How do you take off your gloves in the third round, leading to total disqualification when the fight hasn\u2019t ended?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cY\u2019all know this was rigged, with an incompetent referee who knows nothing about boxing rules. Nevertheless, we move on. Rematch coming soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood actor, Charles Okocha has described his recent boxing bout with Nigerian street-pop singer, Portable as rigged, calling for a rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8271,8266,3963,5323],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-boxing-fight","tag-charles-okocha","tag-portable","tag-rematch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}