{"id":3422,"date":"2024-08-01T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/i-believe-i-lost-japanese-boxer-disputes-official-win-over-filipino-competitor\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T08:47:41","slug":"i-believe-i-lost-japanese-boxer-disputes-official-win-over-filipino-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Boxer Disputes Own Win Over Filipino Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese boxer, Keita Kurihara, displayed respect and true sportsmanship as he renounced his win against Filipino journeyman Renan Portes last Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>A usual eight-round boxing match took a peculiar twist after a whirlwind of emotions as Kurihara addressed the crowd and willingly said, \u201cI didn\u2019t win this fight,\u201d soon after he was announced as the winner by split decision.<\/p>\n<p>It was a split decision, with one Japanese judge scoring it 78-74 in favor of Kurihara and the other scoring it 78-74 in favor of Portes.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook video went viral showing Kurihara\u2019s regret apologizing to Portes while they\u2019re inside the Bukidnon native\u2019s locker room. <\/p>\n<p>Kurihara, speaking through a translator in the Bukidnon native\u2019s locker room, said, \u201cI was declared the winner, but I believe I lost. It\u2019s shameful that I was declared the winner. I apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fedmondlapitandellosa%2Fvideos%2F4253375918221957%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=267&#038;t=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"700\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A victory would have been crucial for Portes, but he instead suffered his 17th loss, adding to his 13 wins. On the other hand, Kurihara improved his record to 19 wins, 8 losses, and 1 draw, with 16 of those wins coming by knockout.<\/p>\n<p>Before his match against Portes, Kurihara had already secured a win against another Filipino boxer, Froilan Saludar, in a rematch held last January in Cebu. In that fight, Kurihara knocked out Saludar, a former world title contender, in the eighth round.<\/p>\n<p>The loss was particularly crushing for the 35-year-old Portes, who had made a promise to his daughter that he would return home victorious.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Portes said, \u201cI promised my child that I won\u2019t return home a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIn the sixth round, I felt groggy but [I fought back] because I promised my child I would bring home the victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A translator told Portes, &#8220;He said you won,&#8221; as Kurihara, still overwhelmed with grief, knelt beside the Filipino, apologizing. &#8220;He believes you won, and that\u2019s what you should tell your child. He\u2019ll fight to ensure the record shows that you won.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h6><credit>H\/T: sports.inquirer.net<\/credit><\/h6>\n<h6><credit>Photo Credit: www.facebook.com\/edmondlapitandellosa <\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true essence of sportsmanship was displayed by Keita Kurihara as he renounced his victory over Renan Portes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-thereisgoodnewstoday"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}