{"id":418325,"date":"2026-10-04T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418325\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:34:57","slug":"olympic-boxer-omari-jones-to-headline-hometown-fight-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418325\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic boxer Omari Jones to headline hometown fight in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic boxer Omari Jones to headline hometown fight in Orlando<\/p>\n

\"AllisonORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Olympic bronze medalist Omari Jones is set to headline a boxing event in his hometown of Orlando on Friday.<\/p>\n

>> Video above: Orlando honors boxer Omari Jones with his own day ahead of first hometown headliner<\/p>\n

Jones, who represented the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics, will face Mexican boxer Alan Sanchez in the main event of Matchroom Boxing’s Project Series 02 at Caribe Royale Orlando. <\/p>\n

The event marks a hometown appearance for Jones, who enters the fight with an undefeated 7-0 professional record. <\/p>\n

The event will begin at the Caribe Royale Orlando at 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

A day before the fight, a ceremonial weigh-in will be held at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Jones made his professional debut in front of an Orlando crowd in March 2025. <\/p>\n

The Orlando native attended Lake Gem Elementary, Meadowbrook Middle School, Edgewater High School, Valencia College, and the School of Hard Knocks in Casselberry, his boxing gym.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic boxer Omari Jones to headline hometown fight in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Olympic bronze medalist Omari Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[165489,88374,133446,159129,165488,165491,13204,165493,165492,165490,139,141,97348,140,159130,2451,165494],"class_list":["post-418325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-boxing-event","tag-caribe-royale-orlando","tag-edgewater-high-school","tag-hard-knocks","tag-hometown-fight","tag-lake-gem-elementary","tag-march","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-meadowbrook-middle-school","tag-olympic-boxer-omari-jones","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-native","tag-orlando-news","tag-own-day","tag-p-m","tag-project-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}