{"id":20306,"date":"2012-07-27T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2012-07-27T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:45:54","slug":"gennady-golovkin-shocks-american-boxing-fans-sports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=20306","title":{"rendered":"Gennady Golovkin SHOCKS American Boxing Fans &#8211; Sports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=20306\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=20306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2320\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"reyesglovesheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/reyesglovesheader1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to face Grzegorz Proksa on September 1st,\u201d says WBA\/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KOs), who will defend against Proksa (28-1, 21 KOs) in his USA debut. The bout was officially announced today. \u201cProksa has never been in the ring with a puncher like me and I\u2019m here to show the world what I\u2019m made of,\u201d continued Golovkin. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to fight in the United States for a long time and look forward to fighting the best middleweights in the world in the near future.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions added, \u201cGennady trains in America and is committed to fighting here where there have been so many middleweight legends; we\u2019re grateful to HBO for this opportunity to showcase his skills. We strongly feel that he is the BEST middleweight in the world right now and we\u2019re anxious for the world to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fight will take place at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, NY. Ticket information to be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to face Grzegorz Proksa on September 1st,\u201d says WBA\/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KOs), who will defend against Proksa (28-1, 21 KOs) in his USA debut. The bout was officially announced today. \u201cProksa has never been in the ring with a puncher like me and I\u2019m here to show the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-20306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306","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=20306"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}