{"id":71763,"date":"2018-05-19T23:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71763"},"modified":"2018-05-19T23:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T04:46:04","slug":"joseph-diaz-jr-speaks-out-after-loss-to-gary-russell-jr-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71763","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Diaz, JR Speaks Out After Loss to Gary Russell, JR &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71763\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71763\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-59030 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/diazvelezweighin_hoganphotos2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/diazvelezweighin_hoganphotos2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/diazvelezweighin_hoganphotos2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>JOSEPH DIAZ JR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game plan was to break him down with the body shots and start attacking him more in the later rounds. But I started attacking him too late. I didn&#8217;t pick it up until the 8th or 9th round. Gary Russell Jr. is a tremendous fighter and he did a great job keeping me at bay. I needed to start in sixth round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was throwing a lot of pitter patter jabs to keep me at bay. He was trying to keep me guessing and make sure I had to think about coming in. Overall it was a good learning experienced and I&#8217;ll definitely be back.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a feeling he would try to stand with him and give the fans a knockout. I didn&#8217;t think he would move quite as much as he did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t hurting me with any shots. He was just very fast. It was keeping me guessing. When he threw combinations, I wasn&#8217;t able to set my shots. I was a little bit hesitant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will just make me a hungrier fighter. I hope I got the respect of a lot of fight fans. I wanted to become champion against the best featherweight fighter in the world. Tonight wasn&#8217;t my night but I&#8217;m going to bounce back harder and I&#8217;ll be champion soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH DIAZ JR. &#8220;The game plan was to break him down with the body shots and start attacking him more in the later rounds. But I started attacking him too late. I didn&#8217;t pick it up until the 8th or 9th round. Gary Russell Jr. is a tremendous fighter and he did a great job [&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":[18069,18070,9907],"class_list":["post-71763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-joseph-diaz","tag-jr-speaks-out-after-loss-to-gary-russell","tag-jr-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71763","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=71763"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}