{"id":298553,"date":"2025-11-21T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298553\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:35:11","slug":"james-in-pan-am-mma-semis-local-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298553\/","title":{"rendered":"James in Pan-Am MMA semis | Local Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOSHUA JAMES steps into the cage for a semi-final bout today at the 2025 IMMAF Pan-Americana Championship in Monterrey, Mexico, hoping to continue Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s recent successes.<\/p>\n<p>James faces Luis Angel Rodriguez Dominguez of Mexico in the Men\u2019s super lightweight (74.8 kg\/165 lbs) division.<\/p>\n<p>Led by TTMMAF president Jason Fraser and national coach Keron Bourne, T&amp;T\u2019s contingent also includes featherweight Damien Adams. Meanwhile, Michael Serrette has already advanced to the super heavyweight (+97 kg\/215 lbs) final, awaiting the outcome between two Mexican semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks T&amp;T\u2019s sixth consecutive appearance at the IMMAF Pan-Americana Championship, a streak that has seen the country consistently win multiple gold, silver, and bronze medals despite fielding one of the smallest delegations in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Fights are scheduled through November 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOSHUA JAMES steps into the cage for a semi-final bout today at the 2025 IMMAF Pan-Americana Championship in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,322,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}