{"id":16422,"date":"2011-09-29T19:53:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16422"},"modified":"2011-09-29T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:53:33","slug":"victor-lupo-phil-greco-greco-is-ducking-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16422","title":{"rendered":"Victor Lupo &#8211; Phil Greco: &#8220;Greco is Ducking ME&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16422\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16425\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Lupo header (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lupo-header-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Romanian welterweight Victor Lupo has done everything possible to get undefeated World Boxing Council (\u201cWBC\u201d) International Welterweight Champion Phil \u201cThe Italian Sensation\u201d Lo Greco into a fight.. The clock is ticking, however, Lo Greco has refused to sign a deal to fight mandatory challenger Lupo.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lupo (19-1-2, 9 KOs), who lives in Toronto, defeated former world champion Junior Witter (37-3-2) by a 10-round decision last February for the vacant WBC International Silver title to become the mandatory challenger. Lupo\u2019s promoter, Hennessey Sports, won a purse bid but Lo Greco (22-0, 12 KOs) has thus far been reluctant to accept the fight offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLo Greco doesn\u2019t want any part of me,\u201d WBC #21 rated Lupo said. \u201cHe\u2019s a real tough guy, huh, talking trash on Twitter. I don\u2019t know what his problem is but, maybe, he needs a heart transplant? I\u2019m from Romania but I\u2019m proud that Canada is my home. He\u2019s from here but doesn\u2019t respect Canadian boxing fans enough to even fight here. He only wants to fight in Italy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked very hard to become the mandatory challenger. Hey, we even agreed to fight in his hometown. I\u2019d rather fight him for the belt because I know I\u2019ll beat him. But, I can\u2019t make him fight me; it\u2019s all on Lo Greco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Go on line at www.HennessySports.com for more information about Victor Lupo or any of its boxers.<\/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:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><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\/08\/twitter-ad-link.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>Romanian welterweight Victor Lupo has done everything possible to get undefeated World Boxing Council (\u201cWBC\u201d) International Welterweight Champion Phil \u201cThe Italian Sensation\u201d Lo Greco into a fight.. The clock is ticking, however, Lo Greco has refused to sign a deal to fight mandatory challenger Lupo.<\/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":[105,5668,5667],"class_list":["post-16422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-nick-lo-greco","tag-victor-lupo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422","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=16422"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}