{"id":13251,"date":"2011-07-21T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13251"},"modified":"2011-07-21T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:06:30","slug":"boxing-news-ibf-cruiserweight-champion-steve-%e2%80%9cuss%e2%80%9d-cunningham-calls-out-antonio-tarver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13251","title":{"rendered":"Boxing News:  IBF Cruiserweight Champion Steve \u201cUSS\u201d Cunningham Calls Out Antonio Tarver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13251\" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-534 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"RSR Boxing Headlines header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/RSR-Boxing-Headlines-header11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Reigning IBF Cruiserweight champion Steve \u201cUSS\u201d Cunningham watched yesterday\u2019s fight that saw Antonio Tarver score a ninth round stoppage over IBO champion Danny Green in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate Tarver on going down there and winning the belt. It takes a lot to go to another man\u2019s home country to win a championship\u201d, said Cunningham, who is known as boxing\u2019s ultimate visitor as he has gone all over the world to both win and defend his world championship.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith you winning the belt and my status as being the best American and top Cruiserweight in the world, I think it would be a great opportunity for us to fight to show the fans in this country that the cruiserweight division has some terrific fights to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fight that I know the American networks would get behind and with what we both bring to the table it would be a great fight. Everybody recognizes me as the top dog in the division and if Antonio wants to legitimize himself as the top cruiserweight in the world, I think he knows deep down he has to go through me to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yesterdays-News-Pamela-Jean-Murawski\/dp\/1607036185\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310486560&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yesterdays-news-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning IBF Cruiserweight champion Steve \u201cUSS\u201d Cunningham watched yesterday\u2019s fight that saw Antonio Tarver score a ninth round stoppage over IBO champion Danny Green in Australia. \u201cI would like to congratulate Tarver on going down there and winning the belt. It takes a lot to go to another man\u2019s home country to win a championship\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1921,105,4195],"class_list":["post-13251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-antonio-tarver","tag-boxing","tag-steve-cunningham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}