{"id":8450,"date":"2012-05-20T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T06:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2012-05-20T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T13:25:56","slug":"brown-wins-world-boxing-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/brown-wins-world-boxing-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Wins <BR>World Boxing Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8451\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8451\" title=\"Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiara Brown (R) of the US and Sandra Kruk of Poland clash during their featherweight 57 kg final final bout at the Women&#39;s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao on May 19, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lehigh Acres boxer Tiara Brown beat Sandra Kruk of Poland, 24-21, to win the featherweight title at the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China.<\/p>\n<p>Brown became just the third women&#8217;s boxer in United States history to win a world title, taking home the championship in the 125-pound weight class.<\/p>\n<p>Brown won her gold medal match against Poland&#8217;s Sandra Kruk on Saturday in China.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has had a lot of success since moving to the featherweight division after fighting at 132 pounds during U.S. Olympic trials.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8452\" title=\"Brown1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brown1.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiara Brown (L) of the US and Sandra Kruk of Poland clash during their featherwight 57 kg final final bout at the Women&#39;s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao on May 19, 2012. Brown won 24:21.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brown had a successful run at the Olympic trials, finishing fourth, but came up a little short in her quest to compete in the 2012 London Games, the first time women&#8217;s boxing has been an Olympic event.<\/p>\n<p>Brown finished second at U.S. Nationals in 2011 and continues to prove that she&#8217;s one of the top female boxers in the world as her young career continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres boxer Tiara Brown beat Sandra Kruk of Poland, 24-21, to win the featherweight title at the Women\u2019s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China. Brown became just the third&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}