{"id":431902,"date":"2026-01-23T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:34:10","slug":"gary-antuanne-russell-vs-andy-hiraoka-joins-barrios-vs-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431902\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Antuanne Russell vs Andy Hiraoka joins Barrios vs Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">An Olympic standout who won his first 17 bouts inside the distance, Russell (18-1, 17 KO) has sadly inherited his brother\u2019s rate of activity, competing just three times in the last three years. After dropping a narrow decision to Alberto Puello in a bid for the interim WBC title, Russell jumped right into a WBA title bout against Jose Valenzuela last March, outclassing \u201cRayo\u201d to claim his first championship belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KO) share\u2019s Russell\u2019s high-octane approach inside the ring and slow-motion movement outside of it, likewise fighting three times since September 2022. His most recent win was his biggest, a mauling of Ismael Barroso in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a very good, if extremely cursed matchup that should produce fireworks. It\u2019s also very funny to me that the main event isn\u2019t even the best title fight on the card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Olympic standout who won his first 17 bouts inside the distance, Russell (18-1, 17 KO) has sadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-431902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431902","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=431902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}