{"id":336129,"date":"2025-12-26T07:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:08:06","slug":"the-life-legacy-and-last-days-of-israel-vazquez-icymi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336129\/","title":{"rendered":"The life, legacy and last days of Israel Vazquez (ICYMI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cHe\u2019d moved out of my house, I set him up in an apartment with Martin Castillo, another fighter from Mexico I had at the time,\u201d Espinoza said. \u201cThis was in the mid-2000s. They lived together, they would go to the gym together. One day I saw them, and Israel looked like he\u2019d just gotten a haircut. And I say, \u2018Hey, Israel, didn\u2019t you just get your hair cut last week?\u2019 He said, \u2018Yeah, I did. And I went again today, and I\u2019m going to go again in a few days.\u2019 I go, \u2018Why? Why are you going to get your hair cut, like, every three days?\u2019 He said, \u2018Because there&#8217;s a girl there that is cutting my hair and I really like her.\u2019 It ended up being Laura. It was so funny, because, you know, his hair just kept getting shorter and shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019d moved out of my house, I set him up in an apartment with Martin Castillo, another fighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,130841,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-336129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-israel-vazquez","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}