{"id":16135,"date":"2011-04-29T22:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2011-04-30T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T14:49:04","slug":"la-puentes-mark-delacruz-and-alan-florez-hall-of-famers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16135","title":{"rendered":"La Puente&#8217;s Mark DeLaCruz and Alan Florez Hall of Famers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16136 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/florez1.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"270\" \/><\/div>\n<div><strong>Pictured: Hall of Famers Mark DeLaCruz (left) and Alan Florez (right) \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>By George Hernandez<\/div>\n<div>[La Puente]\u00a0La Puente High\u00a0School alums and brothers\u00a0Mark DeLaCruz and Alan Florez were inducted into the\u00a0International Kickboxing Association (IKBA)\u00a0Hall of Fame last Saturday.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><!--more-->DeLaCruz, 38 is a mutiple time heavyweight champion and is now head trainer and co-owner with his brother of Team Florez Muay Thai in La Puente.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Florez, 27 is also a mutiple time Muay Thai and Kickboxing champion and a pro boxer. He made a name for himself fighting all comers and has fought all over the world\u00a0from Russia, Canada,\u00a0to Mexico.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Alan &#8220;Non Stop&#8221; Florez is on his way back looking to add more belts to his collection, maybe even a stint in MMA could be possible in the near future.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It was a surprise, we didn&#8217;t even know we were getting inducted.&#8221; said DeLaCruz. &#8220;It felt like I was on top of the world.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>You can check out one of the hottest muay thai and MMA gyms in the area and\u00a0train with area fighters Israel\u00a0Flores and Beto Rodriguez\u00a0at 15813 Main st, La Puente, CA, Mon-Sat. For more info call (626)333-3773.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Hall of Famers Mark DeLaCruz (left) and Alan Florez (right) \u00a0 By George Hernandez [La Puente]\u00a0La Puente High\u00a0School alums and brothers\u00a0Mark DeLaCruz and Alan Florez were inducted into the\u00a0International Kickboxing Association (IKBA)\u00a0Hall of Fame last Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5227,3315,5229,5228,5230,5226,126],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s","tag-alan-florez","tag-beto-rodriguez","tag-florez-muay-thai","tag-ikba-hall-of-fame","tag-israle-flores","tag-mark-delacruz","tag-mma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16143,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions\/16143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}