{"id":196351,"date":"2025-10-08T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196351\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:49:12","slug":"mariana-barby-juarez-ready-to-defend-her-silver-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196351\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariana \u201cBarby\u201d Ju\u00e1rez ready to defend her Silver title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mariana \u201cBarby\u201d Ju\u00e1rez ready to defend her Silver title<\/p>\n<p>Mexican star Mariana \u201cBarby\u201d Ju\u00e1rez will defend her WBC Silver Super Bantamweight Title against Japan\u2019s Tomomi Takano on October 11 in Naucalpan, State of Mexico. Both fighters attended this week\u2019s Martes de Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Iv\u00e1n Camacho, Head of the Benefits Unit at the IMSS, invited the public to attend:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to invite everyone to this great fight, which will take place on Saturday, October 11, at the Cuauht\u00e9moc Sports Complex in Naucalpan. Admission will be free for all attendees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarby\u201d shared her excitement and reflected on her long career:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to be here. It\u2019s been a long road \u2014 27 years in this sport. I\u2019ve achieved many things. I never pursued a unification because I have the best belt, the green and gold. I know I have a strong rival in front of me \u2014 Japanese fighters are always warriors. I\u2019m happy to give my fans a war inside the ring in what will be my second-to-last fight. Tomomi and I are friends, and it\u2019s an honor to face her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about her retirement plans, Ju\u00e1rez confirmed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, 2026 will be my final professional fight. We had originally planned for this one to be the last, but we want my farewell to take place at the Monument to the Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Challenger Tomomi Takano expressed her gratitude in Spanish:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you very much to \u2018Barby\u2019 Ju\u00e1rez, to the WBC, and to everyone here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her trainer, Alejandro \u2018Pollo\u2019, added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on helping her move up in weight, since she\u2019s naturally smaller, and also on improving her defense and her punching power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-165643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Juarez-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_165650\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"165650\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariana \u201cBarby\u201d Ju\u00e1rez ready to defend her Silver title Mexican star Mariana \u201cBarby\u201d Ju\u00e1rez will defend her WBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-196351","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\/196351","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=196351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}