{"id":182928,"date":"2014-10-24T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=182928"},"modified":"2014-10-24T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:00:38","slug":"masga-aims-avenge-teammates-pxc-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/masga-aims-avenge-teammates-pxc-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Masga aims to avenge teammates in PXC 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vince \u201cThe Clinch\u201d Masga is aiming to avenge the losses of his two Trench Tech teammates when he goes up against Guam\u2019s Mcklane Alfred in the opening bout of Pacific Xtreme Combat 45 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Masga (4-1, with 3 of his wins by submission), will take on Alfred (3-1, with 1 knockout) in one of the seven undercard fights  in the battle for the vacant PXC bantamweight crown  between Guam\u2019s Kyle Aguon and the Philippines\u2019 Rolando Dy at the University of Guam Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred went 2-1 against 3 Trench Tech fighters and Masga wants to hand the former his second loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Alfred is one of the rising contenders in the flyweight division and he has beaten two of my teammates. I\u2019m looking to settle the score,\u201d said Masga, who tipped the scales at 124.9 lbs during Thursday\u2019s weigh-in.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred was victorious against Trench Tech fighters Josh \u201cChaos\u201d Duenas and Mark \u201cThe Dark\u201d Nuique in last year\u2019s PXC 40 and PXC 44 this year. He beat Duenas by unanimous decision and defeated Nuique by rear naked choke. The Guahan Top Team fighter then lost to Roman \u201cBoom\u201d Alvarez by split decision in PXC 42 in February this year. <\/p>\n<p>Masga said he aims to be the aggressor against Alfred the entire fight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plan is to push the pace all three rounds, break his spirit, and take the win,\u201d Masga said.<\/p>\n<p>Trench Tech\u2019s Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez (10-1), who weighed in at 125.7 lbs., is also in the undercard and will be fighting Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Darren Uyenoyama (8-5-0). (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince \u201cThe Clinch\u201d Masga is aiming to avenge the losses of his two Trench Tech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[595],"class_list":["post-182928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-trench-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}