{"id":97740,"date":"2020-09-03T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/deces-de-jean-baptiste-mendy-ex-champion-wba-et-wbc-des-legers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:30:00","slug":"deces-de-jean-baptiste-mendy-ex-champion-wba-et-wbc-des-legers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/deces-de-jean-baptiste-mendy-ex-champion-wba-et-wbc-des-legers\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9c\u00e8s de Jean-Baptiste Mendy, ex-champion WBA et WBC des L\u00e9gers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1 c3\"><span class=\"c2\">Le boxeur fran\u00e7ais Jean-Baptise Mendy, ex-champion WBA et WBC des l\u00e9gers, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 57 ans des suites d\u2019un cancer, a annonc\u00e9 mardi son fils \u00e0 \u00abl\u2019Equipe\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 c3\"><span class=\"c2\">\u00abCela a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s rapide, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Ellyson Mendy. Il a appris sa maladie fin juin-d\u00e9but juillet et cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019escalade.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 c3\"><span class=\"c2\">La WBA a rendu hommage sur twitter au Fran\u00e7ais (55 victoires dont 31 avant la limite, 8 d\u00e9faites, 3 nuls), qualifi\u00e9 de \u00abl\u2019un des plus grands combattants de l\u2019histoire de son pays\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 c3\"><span class=\"c2\">Boxeur r\u00e9put\u00e9 pour son \u00e9l\u00e9gance, Mendy, n\u00e9 \u00e0 Dakar et qui a grandi en r\u00e9gion parisienne, s\u2019\u00e9tait empar\u00e9 de la ceinture WBC des l\u00e9gers en 1996 face \u00e0 l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain Lamar Murphy apr\u00e8s une premi\u00e8re tentative avort\u00e9e en 1994 contre le Mexicain Miguel Angel Gonzales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1 c3\"><span class=\"c2\">D\u00e9tr\u00f4n\u00e9 l\u2019ann\u00e9e suivante par l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain Stevie Johnston aux points d\u00e8s sa premi\u00e8re d\u00e9fense de titre, il \u00e9tait mont\u00e9 en super-l\u00e9gers, essuyant un nouvel \u00e9chec face au tenant WBA Khalid Rahilou en 1998. Il parvient tout de m\u00eame \u00e0 reconqu\u00e9rir une ceinture mondiale des l\u00e9gers (WBA) en 1998 contre le Kirghiz Orzubek Nazarov, qu\u2019il perdra en 1999 face au Fran\u00e7ais Julien Lorcy avant de raccrocher les gants en 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Auteur: letemps1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letemps.com.tn\/article\/116806\/d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s-de-jean-baptiste-mendy-ex-champion-wba-et-wbc-des-l%C3%A9gers\">Cliquez ici pour lire l&rsquo;article depuis sa source.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le boxeur fran\u00e7ais Jean-Baptise Mendy, ex-champion WBA et WBC des l\u00e9gers, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 57 ans des suites d\u2019un cancer, a annonc\u00e9 mardi son fils \u00e0 \u00abl\u2019Equipe\u00bb. \u00abCela a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s rapide, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Ellyson Mendy. Il a appris sa maladie fin juin-d\u00e9but juillet et cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019escalade.\u00bb La WBA a rendu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualite","category-tunisie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}