{"id":174385,"date":"2025-09-28T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174385\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:27:08","slug":"downtown-throwdown-hosts-amateur-boxing-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174385\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Throwdown hosts amateur boxing show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; Downtown Sioux Falls played host to matches in the ring on Saturday, as a local gym looked to bring the spirit of boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Vargas Boxing hosted its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/downtown\/downtown-throwdown\/1299238934899059\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/downtown\/downtown-throwdown\/1299238934899059\/\">Downtown Throwdown<\/a>,\u201d an amateur boxing show featuring bouts from local boxers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Many of those in the local boxing scene know each other, and clubs and competitors are coming from around the region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They said getting to hold events like these helps build interest in others picking up the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo when this room gets packed today, afterwards, I\u2019m probably going to shed some tears, because this is amazing. I am so happy that we\u2019re here for it. As soon as I got word that the show was coming, sign us up. Our list got sent right away,\u201d said Sage Lewis with Lobos Boxing Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This was Vargas Boxing\u2019s first show, but organizers said they\u2019re hopeful it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; Downtown Sioux Falls played host to matches in the ring on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-174385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}