{"id":350821,"date":"2026-01-04T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350821\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:29:07","slug":"matchroom-confirm-signing-of-champion-christian-medina-and-announce-his-next-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350821\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchroom confirm signing of champion Christian Medina and announce his next fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">The 26-year-old\u2019s only other 2025 outing was a two-round win over 16-9 Mexican Juan Ramirez Marquez but Matchroom wasted no time announcing his first fight under their banner. Shortly after declaring the signing, they confirmed a homecoming for the champion, on February 6 in Guadalajara against former flyweight champion Adrian Curiel, who is 26-6-1 (5 KOs), and who has won his last two \u2013 both 10-round decisions \u2013 since consecutive defeats to South Africa\u2019s Sivenathi Nontshinga and England\u2019s Sunny Edwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 26-year-old\u2019s only other 2025 outing was a two-round win over 16-9 Mexican Juan Ramirez Marquez but Matchroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[135355,2560,6102,10078,118236,6573,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-350821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-adrian-curiel","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-christian-medina","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350821","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=350821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}