{"id":27682,"date":"2020-02-24T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=27682"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:49:26","slug":"diamonds-highest-mikey-and-jessie-ready-to-dazzle-on-dazn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/diamonds-highest-mikey-and-jessie-ready-to-dazzle-on-dazn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Diamonds highest!&#8221; Mikey and Jessie ready to dazzle on DAZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Diamonds highest!&#8221; Mikey and Jessie ready to dazzle on DAZN<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mikey Garcia and Jessie Vargas in a\u00a0&#8220;Carat and stick&#8221; \u00a0welterweight duel at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, this Saturday, February 29, for the\u00a0WBC\u00a0Diamond Belt.<\/p>\n<p>It`ll be\u00a0live on DAZN in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia (39-1, 30 knockouts) will make his DAZN debut with new promoter Eddie Hearn, located in the same state as his last fight. Mikey has decided to continue his career at 147 pounds and will have an important test versus Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie (29-2-2, 11 knockouts) has already tasted glory in the welterweight division and is aiming to savor the flavor all over again,\u00a0determined \u00a0to \u00a0defeat a high quality opponent, namely Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The spur incentive in The Lone Star State, is the prestigious Diamond belt of the World Boxing Council, a recognition that has been awarded to commemorate very special fights. Some of the previous winners of this belt include Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Saul &#8220;Canelo&#8221; \u00c1lvarez and Sergio &#8220;Maravilla&#8221; Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Diamonds highest!&#8221; Mikey and Jessie ready to dazzle on DAZN Mikey Garcia and Jessie Vargas in a\u00a0&#8220;Carat and stick&#8221; \u00a0welterweight duel at the Ford Center at<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}