{"id":328532,"date":"2023-02-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=328532"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:01:42","slug":"liam-to-fight-for-world-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2023\/02\/02\/liam-to-fight-for-world-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam To Fight For World Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_328536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328536\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328536\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/liamwilson-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Kingaroy boxer Liam Wilson with his team after his WBO Asia Pacific super featherweight title win last year (Photo: Supplied)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>February 2, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Kingaroy boxer Liam Wilson will be in the fight of his life on Saturday when he takes on Mexican Emanuel Navarrete for the WBO super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s believed this is the first time a Kingaroy boxer has fought for a world title.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, 26, trained as a junior in Kingaroy under local legend Len Hams.<\/p>\n<p>He had 13 fights under Hams before moving to Caboolture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2017, Wilson qualified for the Commonwealth Games in the light welterweight category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going into the Games, Wilson was a five-times Australian champion, nine-times Queensland champion and six-times Australian Golden Glove winner with\u00a0122 wins from 135 fights.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson easily won his first fight at the games, defeating PNG boxer John Ume 5-0 in the Men\u2019s 64kg bout but was defeated 5-0 by Englishman Luke McCormack in a quarter-final bout.<\/p>\n<p>In his professional career, Wilson has a record of 11 wins (six by KO or TKO) with just one loss.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, Wilson knocked out Filipino Joe Noynay to secure the WBO Asia Pacific super featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bout against Navarrete will be held at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fight has been billed as &#8220;the greatest fight in Kingaroy history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It will be broadcast live at the Kingaroy Hotel-Motel from 10:00am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The pub will also be putting on a free sausage sizzle, raffles and auctions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fausboxing%2Fvideos%2F3490710557843047%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=760&amp;t=0\" width=\"760\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/04\/10\/liam-bows-out-in-quarter-final\/\">Liam Bows Out In Quarter-Final<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kingaroy boxer Liam Wilson will be in the fight of his life on Saturday when he takes on Mexican Emanuel Navarrete for the WBO super featherweight title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":328536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[475,3,6],"tags":[1155],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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