{"id":366495,"date":"2026-07-09T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366495\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:04:09","slug":"inside-the-ring-sonic-paez-continues-to-improve-as-he-pursues-his-olympic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366495\/","title":{"rendered":"INSIDE THE RING: \u2018Sonic\u2019 Paez continues to improve as he pursues his Olympic dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio amateur boxer recently became a 10-time national champion<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The road to becoming a professional boxer is years in the making. For many, once a young boxer graduates high school, they decide to go pro. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">For San Antonio\u2019s Christian \u201cSonic\u201d Paez, those plans are on hold as he chases his dream to represent the United States in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">KSAT 12 Sports recently caught up with the Southwest High School graduate to learn more about his first international tournament and becoming a 10-time national champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">More boxing coverage on KSAT:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorsDaniel Villanueva headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/Daniel Villanueva\/\" title=\"View Daniel Villanueva&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Villanueva<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Daniel P. Villanueva has been with KSAT 12 since 2003 and is the producer of the station&#8217;s sports streaming show KSAT Sports Now. Villanueva is a graduate of St. Mary&#8217;s University and is a TAPB and Two-time Lone Star Emmy award winner for sports and news.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Mendez headshot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio amateur boxer recently became a 10-time national champion SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The road to becoming a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129765,6913,29245,82,84,83,61575],"class_list":["post-366495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-boxeo","tag-boxing","tag-ksat-sports-now","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-southwest-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366495","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=366495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}