{"id":21329,"date":"2025-10-20T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joe-cordina-set-to-face-gabriel-flores-jr-in-california-next-december\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:41:07","slug":"joe-cordina-set-to-face-gabriel-flores-jr-in-california-next-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joe-cordina-set-to-face-gabriel-flores-jr-in-california-next-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Cordina set to face Gabriel Flores Jr in California next December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former IBF super-featherweight champion Joe Cordina will face Gabriel Flores Jr in Stockton, California on 13 December.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight &#8211; which will be contested at lightweight &#8211; in Flores&#8217; hometown will be on the undercard of the bout between super middleweight contenders Diego Pacheco (24-0, 18 KOs) and Kevin Lele Sadjo (26-0, 23 KOs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welshman Cordina, 33, (18-1, 9 KOs) suffered the first defeat of his career to lose his title to Anthony Cacace in May 2024, but returned from a 14-month lay-off last July with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g8k99709zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">points win over Jaret Gonzalez Quiroz<\/a> to claim the vacant WBO global lightweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old Flores (27-2, 8 KOs) is on a six-fight winning streak, including two wins in 2025 on points against Jose Arellano and Christian Villanova Arriola.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/crkl4kmlpxzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IBF super-featherweight champion Joe Cordina will face Gabriel Flores Jr in Stockton, California on 13 December. The fight &#8211; which will be contested at lightweight &#8211; in Flores&#8217; hometown will be on the undercard of the bout between super middleweight contenders Diego Pacheco (24-0, 18 KOs) and Kevin Lele Sadjo (26-0, 23 KOs). Welshman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions\/21331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}