{"id":282760,"date":"2026-04-23T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282760\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:49:21","slug":"amari-jones-vs-vincenzo-gualtieri-leads-may-22-gbp-show-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282760\/","title":{"rendered":"Amari Jones vs Vincenzo Gualtieri leads May 22 GBP show in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Middleweight prospect Amari Jones will headline a May 22nd Golden Boy show in San Jose opposite former champion Vincenzo Gualtieri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones (16-0, 14 KO), 23, sits at no. 4 in the IBF\u2019s rankings despite facing a level of opposition that could charitably be called age-appropriate. He was last seen beating the faded Luis Arias on the Mario Barrios vs Ryan Garcia undercard, making this a considerable step up in class on paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a different kind of energy when I\u2019m home,\u201d Jones said. \u201cDifferent pressures, but they say pressure makes diamonds. On May 22, you\u2019re going to see me shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy goal is to become world champion again,\u201d Gualtieri said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to this fight because it gives me that opportunity. I will give everything to achieve this goal again, for my family and for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cruiserweight Robin Safar (19-0, 13 KO) returns to action in the co-feature, taking on TBA after missing out on a shot at \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middleweight prospect Amari Jones will headline a May 22nd Golden Boy show in San Jose opposite former champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[121440,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-282760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-boxing-news","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}