{"id":71219,"date":"2018-04-12T01:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T06:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71219"},"modified":"2018-04-12T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T06:30:39","slug":"gary-russell-vs-joseph-jojo-diaz-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71219","title":{"rendered":"Gary Russell, JR Vs Joseph \u201cJoJo\u201d Diaz Coming Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71219\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51857 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Gary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Joshua \u201cCity\u201d Brewer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ask and you shall receive. It has been reported that Gary Russell, JR., 28-1, 17 KO\u2019s, will face Joseph \u201cJoJo\u201d Diaz, 26-0, 14 KO\u2019s, in the co-feature of May 19, 2018, Showtime card headlined by Adonis Stevenson Vs Badou Jack. The fight will be broadcasted live from the Bell Center in Montreal. The World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title will be on the line and this may actually turn out to be the fight of the card. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Diaz has been calling out Russell, JR., for months and will finally get the opportunity to try and back his talk. Diaz is fresh off of a knockout victory over Victor Terrazas in February. Russell, JR., was dominant in his last outing with a stoppage victory over Oscar Escandon last May. When the two fighters face off, Russell, JR., will have gone a year without fighting. This has been a trend for Russell, JR., since 2015. He\u2019s only had one fight per year since picking up the WBC featherweight title with his stoppage over the hard hitting Jhonny Gonzalez.<br \/>\nThere may be no better time than now for the two foes to face off. This will answer a lot of questions as to where Russell, JR., is at this juncture of his career and if Diaz is in fact the real deal. Both have been seen as guys who can make major noise in the division and this fight could set off a chain of events where the rest of the best in this weight class eventually face off. There is a ton of talent in and around the featherweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joshua \u201cCity\u201d Brewer Ask and you shall receive. It has been reported that Gary Russell, JR., 28-1, 17 KO\u2019s, will face Joseph \u201cJoJo\u201d Diaz, 26-0, 14 KO\u2019s, in the co-feature of May 19, 2018, Showtime card headlined by Adonis Stevenson Vs Badou Jack. The fight will be broadcasted live from the Bell Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[943,17913],"class_list":["post-71219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-gary-russell","tag-jr-vs-joseph-jojo-diaz-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71219"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}