{"id":384702,"date":"2026-01-22T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:09:07","slug":"gary-antuanne-russell-vs-andy-hiraoka-joins-barrios-vs-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384702\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Antuanne Russell vs Andy Hiraoka joins Barrios vs Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">An Olympic standout who won his first 17 bouts inside the distance, Russell (18-1, 17 KO) has sadly inherited his brother\u2019s rate of activity, competing just three times in the last three years. After dropping a narrow decision to Alberto Puello in a bid for the interim WBC title, Russell jumped right into a WBA title bout against Jose Valenzuela last March, outclassing \u201cRayo\u201d to claim his first championship belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KO) share\u2019s Russell\u2019s high-octane approach inside the ring and slow-motion movement outside of it, likewise fighting three times since September 2022. His most recent win was his biggest, a mauling of Ismael Barroso in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a very good, if extremely cursed matchup that should produce fireworks. It\u2019s also very funny to me that the main event isn\u2019t even the best super lightweight title fight on the card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Olympic standout who won his first 17 bouts inside the distance, Russell (18-1, 17 KO) has sadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384702","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=384702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}