{"id":215891,"date":"2015-12-03T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215891"},"modified":"2015-12-03T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:00:40","slug":"nmi-bets-upbeat-a-day-before-pxc-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmi-bets-upbeat-a-day-before-pxc-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"NMI bets upbeat a day before PXC fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215903\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PXC-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PXC-pix-300x200.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez works the punching bag in this photo taken while training inside the Trench Tech Gym for his upcoming match in the Pacific Xtreme Combat 50 on Friday at the University of Guam Calvo Fieldhouse. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CNMI fighters Josh \u201cChaos\u201d Duenas and cousins Roman \u201cSonic Boom\u201d and Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez are upbeat for their respective undercard bouts in tomorrow\u2019s Pacific Xtreme Combat 50 at the University of Guam Calvo Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Duenas is hoping to end his winless streak in the PXC when he faces New Zealand\u2019s Kai Cara-France in a flyweight bout, Roman will take on another Kiwi in Mark Abelardo in the featherweight division while Shane Alvarez and Japan\u2019s Yutaro Muramoto face off in a bantamweight match.<\/p>\n<p>Trench Tech promoter Cuki Alvarez and Ken \u201cKamikazi\u201d Tanzawa will be the cornermen of the three and Frank \u201cThe Crank\u201d Camacho, who will clash with Tyrone \u201cBones\u201d Jones for the vacant PXC lightweight belt in one of the two title bouts.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuke Yachi of Japan will defend his PXC featherweight title against Alex Volkanovski in the semi main event.<\/p>\n<p>Cuki Alvarez said he expects all four fighters to make the weight in today\u2019s weigh in at Cars Plus in Maite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[They are] on point. All of them have less than 10 lbs to cut. At this point, that is good. The [last] days are crunch time. They will drop the last few pounds before the fight,\u201d added Cuki Alvarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI fighters Josh \u201cChaos\u201d Duenas and cousins Roman \u201cSonic Boom\u201d and Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,6409,170,1289],"class_list":["post-215891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-cuki-alvarez","tag-japan","tag-pxc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215891","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}