{"id":180623,"date":"2026-02-26T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180623\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:23:09","slug":"professional-boxing-to-take-center-stage-at-college-park-center-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/180623\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional boxing to take center stage at College Park Center | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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College Park Center sits\u00a0on the corner of West Second Street and Spaniolo Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

File photo \/ Samarie Goffney<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This information is up to date as of the time of publishing. Details about the event are subject to change.<\/p>\n

This Friday, College Park Center will go from hardwood to canvas as it hosts a night of professional boxing. <\/p>\n

ProBox TV, a boxing promotion and media company, is bringing \u201cThe Contender Series\u201d to Arlington and with it, \u201ca night of action-packed world-class boxing,\u201d scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m., according to a press release. <\/p>\n

The main event is a 10-round bout between Grimardi Machuca (17-3, 14 KOs) and Fort Worth native Edward Vazquez (18-3, 5 KOs), according to the release. <\/p>\n

Machuca is trying to snap a three-fight losing streak, while Vazquez is looking to keep momentum going following a dominant win over Albeiro Paredes. <\/p>\n

The co-main event is a 10-round welterweight fight. Ruben Aguilar (23-0-1, 20 KOs) will face off against Luis Lopez (16-2-4, 5 KOs), according to the release. <\/p>\n

Aguilar is from Baja California, Mexico, but will walk into Arlington looking to protect his perfect record. Lopez is coming off two draws. <\/p>\n

The card features other supporting bouts, including Emilio Garcia (3-0, 3 KOs) facing Ociel Vazquez (2-2, 2 KOs) and Hugo Amador Mendez (6-0, 3 KOs) taking on Christian Luna (3-1, 1 KO), according to the release. <\/p>\n

Tickets can be purchased through the UTA tickets website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

@diegocllazo<\/p>\n

sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College Park Center sits\u00a0on the corner of West Second Street and Spaniolo Drive.\u00a0 File photo \/ Samarie Goffney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":["post-180623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}