{"id":92374,"date":"2020-08-29T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=92374"},"modified":"2020-08-29T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:45:17","slug":"highly-regarded-javier-martinez-looks-for-win-number-two-tonight-in-las-vegas-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=92374","title":{"rendered":"Highly Regarded Javier Martinez Looks for Win Number Two Tonight in Las Vegas &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=92374\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=92374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-92375 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-3-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Tonight at the MGM Grand Conference Center, middleweight prospect Javier Martinez goes for his 2nd win as a professional as he takes on Rance Ward<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, 25 years-old of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is managed by Tim VanNewhouse of Split-T Management, and is promoted by Top Rank.<\/p>\n<p>The bout can be seen LIVE on ESPN + beginning at 7:30 ET.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was impressive in his pro debut when he won a four-round unanimous decision over Ryan Burrs on July 15th.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUv4y8sFe14\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>Ward (4-1-1, 2 KOs) of Houma, Louisiana won his first four bouts, and has a win over previously undefeated Scott Perhach.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was the 2020 Olympic Trial Champion at middleweight. He was also a five-time National Champion, and the number-one ranked fighter at 165 pounds in the USA Boxing Rankings, Martinez&#8217;s selection as an Olympic alternate despite his victory at the trials and various international experience caused shock-waves through the amateur system.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday&#8217;s weigh-in, Martinez was 159.5 lbs. Ward was 162.9 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez is trained by Robert Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Tonight at the MGM Grand Conference Center, middleweight prospect Javier Martinez goes for his 2nd win as a professional as he takes on Rance Ward Martinez, 25 years-old of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is managed by Tim VanNewhouse of Split-T Management, and is promoted by Top Rank. The bout can be seen LIVE on ESPN + [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23210],"class_list":["post-92374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-highly-regarded-javier-martinez-looks-for-win-number-two-tonight-in-las-vegas-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92374","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=92374"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}