{"id":21956,"date":"2012-09-23T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=21956"},"modified":"2012-09-23T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T18:56:31","slug":"ricky-burns-shocks-kevin-mitchell-by-knockout-british-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=21956","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Burns SHOCKS Kevin Mitchell by KNOCKOUT &#8211; British Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=21956\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=21956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16165\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"britishboxingnewsheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/britishboxingnewsheader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KOs) retained his title with a fourth round TKO over Kevin Mitchell (33-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. Burns dropped Mitchell twice in round four and the bout was waved off. Time was 2:59.<\/p>\n<p>Comebacking former world champion Scott Harrison (27-2-2, 15 KOs) outpointed late sub Joe Elfidh (7-2, 0 KOs) over six in a lightweight bout. Harrison dropped Elfidh in round one and cruised to a six round 60-53 decision. Harrison may be in line to face the winner of Burns-Mitchell.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Super featherweight John Simpson (24-9, 11 KOs) scored a second round KO against journeyman Dai Davies (9-19-2, 1 KO) to win the BBBofC Celtic belt.<\/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>WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns (35-2, 10 KOs) retained his title with a fourth round TKO over Kevin Mitchell (33-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. Burns dropped Mitchell twice in round four and the bout was waved off. Time was 2:59. Comebacking former world champion Scott Harrison [&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":[788,7181,2139],"class_list":["post-21956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-british-boxing","tag-kevin-mitchell","tag-ricky-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956","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=21956"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}