{"id":71701,"date":"2018-05-18T19:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71701"},"modified":"2018-05-18T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:21:41","slug":"adonis-stevenson-badou-jack-gary-russell-jr-joseph-diaz-jr-final-comments-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71701","title":{"rendered":"Adonis Stevenson, Badou Jack, Gary Russell, JR &#038; Joseph Diaz, JR Final Comments &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71701\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50273 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ring-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING \u2013 10:05 p.m. ET\/PT<\/p>\n<p>WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship<\/p>\n<p>Adonis Stevenson \u2013 173 \u00bc Pounds<\/p>\n<p>Badou Jack \u2013 175 Pounds<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Ian John-Lewis (England); Judges: Guido Cavalleri (Italy), Jesse Reyes (Texas), Eric Marlinski (New York)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WBC Featherweight World Championship<\/p>\n<p>Gary Russell Jr. \u2013 125 \u00bd Pounds<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Diaz Jr. \u2013 126 Pounds<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Kenny Chevalier (Maryland); Judges: David Braslow (Maryland), Dave Moretti (Nevada), Nathan Palmer (Indiana)<\/p>\n<p>FLASH QUOTES:<\/p>\n<p>ADONIS STEVENSON: \u201cAnything he brings, I will be ready. I will get the job done. This will not go 12 rounds. I just need one punch, only one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BADOU JACK: \u201cI\u2019m just going to go in there and be smart and win the fight. I have no nerves, I\u2019m just excited. I felt he was nervous; you could feel it. He\u2019s finally in against a real fighter. He hasn\u2019t fought anyone top-notch since 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GARY RUSSELL JR.: \u201cMy family keeps me hungry at this stage of my career. My friends, my true fans that come out here and support me \u2013 I love you. I get my energy from them. A lot of my opponents say that when they are in the ring with me they feel like they\u2019re getting hit by multiple people. I bring the energy of my true fans in the ring with me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel as though I am the best fighter in the division, hands down. JoJo Diaz has stated that. I feel that I shouldn\u2019t be going the distance with anybody. If I do, I\u2019ll be disappointed in myself. We ain\u2019t going 12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JOSEPH DIAZ JR.: \u201cI respect Gary Russell\u2019s speed, but at the end of the day speed is not everything. I have the right timing and I\u2019m able to adjust and adapt. He is fast and I respect that. We\u2019re going to give the fans a hell of a fight on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday night, I\u2019m going to be the bigger man in there. I made the weight and now it\u2019s time to go hydrate. Training went well, my conditioning is good, my strength is there. I\u2019m going to break down Gary Russell physically and mentally. I\u2019ll be the champion come Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING \u2013 10:05 p.m. ET\/PT WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship Adonis Stevenson \u2013 173 \u00bc Pounds Badou Jack \u2013 175 Pounds Referee: Ian John-Lewis (England); Judges: Guido Cavalleri (Italy), Jesse Reyes (Texas), Eric Marlinski (New York)<\/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":[16698,18050,943,18051,18052],"class_list":["post-71701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-adonis-stevenson","tag-badou-jack","tag-gary-russell","tag-jr-joseph-diaz","tag-jr-final-comments-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71701","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=71701"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}