It’s going to be the opportunity of a lifetime for San Antonio’s very own Rick Medina.<\/p>\n
The Lanier ex hasn’t fought since Christmas Eve but he got a win on that most holy night and will now fight Oscar Valdez, the former world champion in two weight divisions.<\/p>\n
And it’s coming up quick. September 6th!<\/p>\n
Rick’s 16-3 and this is one of those moments he’s been training for since he was a little kid.<\/p>\n
Both guys will be fighting in the in the 132-pound weight class.<\/p>\n
But Rick’s going into the lion’s den on September 6th, fighting in Valdes’ hometown of Nogales, Mexico, which is just south of Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n
Here’s some of what Rick Medina had to say before his big fight but be on the lookout for his entire interview in the days leading up to the event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s going to be the opportunity of a lifetime for San Antonio’s very own Rick Medina. The Lanier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,13003,1138,57768,57767,24616,57769,82,50193],"class_list":["post-99568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-champion","tag-fight","tag-oscar-valdez","tag-rick-medina","tag-san-antonio","tag-september-6th","tag-sports","tag-weight-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568","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=99568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}