{"id":77710,"date":"2022-08-05T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/marlen-esparza-y-eva-guzman-listas-para-subir-al-ring\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:05:00","slug":"marlen-esparza-promises-to-lay-down-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/marlen-esparza-promises-to-lay-down-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlen Esparza promises to lay down the law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marlen Esparza promises to lay down the law!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council flyweight champion Marlen Esparza (12-1, 1 KO) of Houston, Texas is ready to defend her crown against former champion Eva \u201cLa Ley\u201d Guzm\u00e1n (19-1, 11 KOs) of Maracay, Venezuela, on Saturday, August 6 at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Esparza, born in Houston, Texas, began her boxing career at age 12 after growing up in a home that loved and lived the sport. In May 2012, Esparza became the first American woman to qualify to compete in the 2012 London Olympics, the first year that women\u2019s boxing made its debut as an Olympic event. She won the bronze medal in the flyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Esparza had a successful year, with a unanimous decision victory against Ibeth Zamora for the WBC World Flyweight Championship.<br \/>\nEva Guzman, who was already a world champion, comes to this fight after defeating her compatriot Yanetsy Gomez last November.<\/p>\n<p>Esparza registered 111.8 pounds, while Guzm\u00e1n was 109 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MARLEN-EVA-WEIGH.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95578 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MARLEN-EVA-WEIGH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MARLENE-WEIGH2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95579\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MARLENE-WEIGH2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MRLEN-WEIGH1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95580 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/MRLEN-WEIGH1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlen Esparza promises to lay down the law! World Boxing Council flyweight champion Marlen Esparza (12-1, 1 KO) of Houston, Texas is ready to defend her<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":77708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77710","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=77710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}