{"id":77377,"date":"2019-01-01T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=77377"},"modified":"2019-01-01T14:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:10:40","slug":"ringside-report-looks-back-at-marty-maestas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=77377","title":{"rendered":"Ringside Report Looks Back at Marty Maestas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=77377\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=77377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77378 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MartyMaestas-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MartyMaestas-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/MartyMaestas.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a>By Daniel Sisneros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Mexico&#8217;s Marty Maestas got a late start in boxing, but accomplished much. After a successful amateur career, including a state ABF Golden Gloves Championship, he turned professional on August, 5 1995. Marty&#8217;s first pro fight was a 4 round war against fellow Albuquerquean Jacob &#8220;Razor Sharp&#8221; Romero, and has become remembered as one of the great battles in New Mexico boxing history. It ended in a 3 way split draw.<\/p>\n<p>Maestas never fought for a professional title, but was involved in many memorable bouts, and became a local favorite squaring off with many of the other local pro boxers. He became known as a fighter who would accept any bout offered to him.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Marty&#8217;s last pro fight came on Feb. 19, 2000 as he battled up &amp; coming New Mexico KO artist &#8220;Amazing&#8221; Adriano Sanchez (6-1, 6 ko&#8217;s). He was stopped in round 5 of this battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase Dan&#8217;s Hit Boxing Book Mat Tales: True Stories From The Bizarre, Brutal World Of Pro Boxing by Clicking the Image to ORDER it Now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72173 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Sisneros New Mexico&#8217;s Marty Maestas got a late start in boxing, but accomplished much. After a successful amateur career, including a state ABF Golden Gloves Championship, he turned professional on August, 5 1995. Marty&#8217;s first pro fight was a 4 round war against fellow Albuquerquean Jacob &#8220;Razor Sharp&#8221; Romero, and has become remembered [&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":[19420],"class_list":["post-77377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ringside-report-looks-back-at-marty-maestas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377","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=77377"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}