{"id":239715,"date":"2025-08-05T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=239715"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:11:31","slug":"mena-rd-captures-evo-2025-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/mena-rd-captures-evo-2025-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mena RD captures Evo 2025 championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia-1024x721.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239730\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia-1024x721.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia-1536x1082.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mena-RD-n\u0303-campeon-EVO-Japon-y-Las-Vegas-El-Dia.png 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Saul Leonardo (Mena RD) is now a three-time Evo champion after winning Evo 2025, EvoJapan 2025 and Evo Japan 2024. He previously captured two Capcom Cup championship titles. He is also one of the top Street Fighter 6 players in the world. His victory brought a cash prize of US$16,932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MenaRD is now a three-time Evo champion after winning Evo 2025, Evo Japan 2025 and Evo Japan 2024. Adding that to his two Capcom Cup championship titles and MenaRD is one of the top Street Fighter 6 players in the world right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonardo for years has been calling for more support for the DR\u2019s Street Fighter scene to build the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esports will be a medal sport for the first time at the Santo Domingo 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games. This marks a significant step in recognizing esports as a mainstream sport and integrating it into a major regional multi-sport event. The games are scheduled to take place from 24 July to 8 August 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/08\/menard-evo-street-fighter-6-champion\">Esports Insider <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sgFKdxFU4k\">YouTube <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/menard-hace-historia-al-coronarse-campeon-en-evo-japon-y-las-vegas\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 August 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul Leonardo (Mena RD) is now a three-time Evo champion after winning Evo 2025, EvoJapan 2025 and Evo Japan 2024. He previously captured two Capcom Cup championship titles. He is also one of the top Street Fighter 6 players in the world. His victory brought a cash prize of US$16,932. MenaRD is now a three-time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/mena-rd-captures-evo-2025-championship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239732,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239715\/revisions\/239732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}