{"id":425001,"date":"2026-08-06T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425001\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:36:13","slug":"boxing-king-city-san-ardo-boxers-compete-in-oakland-the-king-city-rustler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/425001\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing | King City, San Ardo boxers compete in Oakland | The King City Rustler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/kingcityrustler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/Boxing-at-Summer-Showdown-II.jpg\" data-caption=\"Participating in the Summer Showdown II in Oakland are (from left) Coach Rodolfo Tapia, Alex Salazar of King City and Miguel Hernandez of San Ardo. (Contributed)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"382\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boxing-at-Summer-Showdown-II-696x382.jpg\"  data- alt=\"Boxing at Summer Showdown\" title=\"Boxing at Summer Showdown II\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/382;\"\/><\/a>Participating in the Summer Showdown II in Oakland are (from left) Coach Rodolfo Tapia, Alex Salazar of King City and Miguel Hernandez of San Ardo. (Contributed)<\/p>\n<p>KING CITY \u2014 Alex Salazar of King City Boxing Club and Miguel Hernandez of San Ardo Boxing Club represented South Monterey County last Saturday at the Summer Showdown II Youth Boxing Tournament in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>The event was hosted by the East Oakland Boxing Association and the competition was governed by USA Boxing and its officials.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar, 14, placed second in the 119-pound weight class, and 16-year-old Hernandez placed first in the 110-pound weight class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of my boxers did an outstanding job and followed instructions,\u201d said King City and San Ardo Boxing Clubs head coach Rodolfo Tapia. \u201cMiguel came out with a unanimous decision in the win, and Alex had a very close fight but lost by split decision. I am very proud of them \u2014 good performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The local boxing clubs have a busy August as they will fight in Salinas this Saturday; in Santa Maria on Aug. 16; and then travel to Oxnard for the PAL (Police Athletic League) International Boxing Tournament on Aug. 23-29.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Boxing-winner-Miguel-Hernandez.jpg\" alt=\"Boxing at Summer Showdown\" class=\"wp-image-1385638\"  \/>San Ardo Boxing Club member Miguel Hernandez has his hand raised in victory after placing first in Oakland last Saturday. (Contributed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Participating in the Summer Showdown II in Oakland are (from left) Coach Rodolfo Tapia, Alex Salazar of King&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[48714,7796,1393,169462,11032,169463,143,145,144,47474,169464,47477],"class_list":["post-425001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-athletes","tag-boxing","tag-coaches","tag-contests-and-competitions","tag-king-city","tag-king-city-boxing-club","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-ardo","tag-san-ardo-boxing-club","tag-south-monterey-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425001","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=425001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}