{"id":862071,"date":"2026-08-18T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:48:15","slug":"saginaw-teen-crowned-national-boxing-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862071\/","title":{"rendered":"Saginaw teen crowned national boxing champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A 13-year-old Saginaw fighter is now a national boxing champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gideon Boxing Gym, a mid-Michigan nonprofit dedicated to uplifting local youth through boxing, is celebrating a big win of one of their fighters, Juan, now the 2026 Ringside \u201cKing of the Jungle\u201d. The teen won the championship Aug. 8 in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gideon Boxing Gym, a mid-Michigan nonprofit dedicated to uplifting local youth through boxing,...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HV5YW5SYDJHKLD56T5FKYBSGKY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>Gideon Boxing Gym, a mid-Michigan nonprofit dedicated to uplifting local youth through boxing, is celebrating a big win of one of their fighters, Juan, now the 2026 Ringside &#8220;King of the Jungle&#8221;.(Gideon Boxing Gym)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Six boxers from Gideon Boxing Gym competed in the national tournament, with three advancing to the finals. Juan came home a champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gideon Boxing Gym is a nonprofit youth development organization that uses boxing as a tool to build character, with a mission to instill integrity, courage, and discipline through physical fitness, mentorship, and life coaching. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The nonprofit said Juan\u2019s win is a testament to what\u2019s possible when Saginaw kids are given the right support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnem.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wnem.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\">WNEM TV5 newsletter<\/a> and receive the latest local news and weather straight to your email every day.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WNEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A 13-year-old Saginaw fighter is now a national boxing champion. Gideon Boxing Gym, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[299891,299894,703,49,48,299893,299892,69319,82,299895],"class_list":["post-862071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-13-year-old-saginaw-fighter","tag-2026-ringside-king-of-the-jungle","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gideon-boxing-gym","tag-national-boxing-champion","tag-nonprofit","tag-sports","tag-youth-development-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862071","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=862071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}