{"id":342111,"date":"2026-06-01T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:34:07","slug":"canelo-alvarez-draws-big-crowd-at-bakersfield-foodmaxx-for-surprise-meet-and-greet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342111\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez draws big crowd at Bakersfield FoodMaxx for surprise meet-and-greet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fans of Mexican boxing star Canelo Alvarez packed an east Bakersfield grocery store on Monday, June 1, for a surprise meet-and-greet that drew hundreds of people hoping for a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez made an unannounced appearance at the FoodMaxx on Niles Street, where a long line formed outside the store. The meet-and-greet was limited to the first 100 shoppers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/db14dfc2-7213-4493-8ec6-a8f085fc0535-Media19.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6234434f-746e-4a12-8ace-13e7c2efa96a-Media20.jpg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was reportedly in town to promote a line of ready-to-drink cocktails from VMC Drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fans of Mexican boxing star Canelo Alvarez packed an east Bakersfield grocery store on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-342111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342111","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=342111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}