{"id":291908,"date":"2025-11-18T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:20:07","slug":"tito-mercado-exclusive-interview-november-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291908\/","title":{"rendered":"Tito Mercado Exclusive Interview \u00bb November 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>By Jeff Zimmerman<\/p>\n<p>Undefeated Super-Lightweight contender Ernesto \u201cTito\u201d Mercado (17-0, 16 KOs) returns to the ring on Friday, December 13, to challenge 32-year-old Mexican boxer Antonio Moran (31-7-1, 21 KOs) for the WBO International Super-Lightweight Title at the Adventist Health Arena in Stockton, California.  The card is headlined by Gabe Flores Jr. vs. Joe Cordina and live on DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>Mercado talks about becoming a world champ in 2026 and a desire to fight both Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.  He gave his prediction of Haney-Norman Jr. this weekend in Saudi Arabia and rumored fights between Barrios-KingRy and Shakur-Teofimo.  Mercado also shared his thoughts on the heavyweight clash between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua and much more in this exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>\n        PLEASE READ<br \/>We have a few rules to make our comment section more enjoyable for everyone.<br \/>1. Keep comments related to boxing.<br \/>2. Be respectful, polite and keep it clean.<br \/>3. Personal attacks will not be tolerated.<br \/>Offending posts will be removed.<br \/>Repeat offenders will be put on moderation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jeff Zimmerman Undefeated Super-Lightweight contender Ernesto \u201cTito\u201d Mercado (17-0, 16 KOs) returns to the ring on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-291908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291908","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=291908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}