{"id":23634,"date":"2012-10-18T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=23634"},"modified":"2012-10-18T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T06:18:00","slug":"glenn-johnson-unretires-why-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=23634","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Johnson Unretires – WHY? – Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>His retirement didn\u2019t last long. Former IBF light heavyweight champion Glen Johnson will face Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groveson December 15 at London\u2019s ExCeL. Groves\u2019 promoter Frank Warren confirmed today that Groves and the Jamaican-born Miami-based Johnson will feature as chief support on the multi-title card headlined by WBO world lightweight champion Ricky Burns.<\/p>\n

The Hammersmith southpaw Groves is unbeaten in 15 fights, but sees Johnson as the toughest and most exciting fight of his career so far that has already seen him beat the best of British in James DeGale and Paul Smith. Due to injuries Groves, 24, has only fought once this year, but he managed to put in action packed performance in California in July that saw him stop tough Mexican Francisco Sierra in six rounds that sent his stock soaring Stateside.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohnson is a great name and it will be a fantastic fight to end the year with before looking at a world title shot next year,\u201d Said Groves<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a true warrior and will come to fight and in no way am I expecting an easy night\u2019s work against him. I\u2019ll be training my guts out for this fight and it could turn into a brutal and bloody war, one that the fans will relish,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had 70 fights with 35 knockouts and is a massive step up for me in just my sixteenth fight, a win against him would be great on my record. One things for sure, the fans and BoxNation viewers are in for a thrilling fight on December 15th,\u201d<\/p>\n

The legendary Bernard Hopkins is the first and only man to stop Johnson over 15 years ago and since then, amongst others, he\u2019s taken world champions Chad Dawson and Carl Froch the full distance.<\/p>\n

Groves knows he faces a huge task, but would love to be the first man since Hopkins to stop the Road Warrior.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cThe man is like a tank coming forward all the time and I\u2019ll need to pull out some big bombs if I\u2019m going to stop him. Top men like Froch and Dawson, plus Antonio Tarver and Clinton Woods couldn\u2019t halt him so it\u2019s a tall order, but I\u2019m confident in my abilities and if I can be the first since Hopkins to stop him then it will send a strong message out to the 168 pound world champions that I\u2019m coming for them,\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren added, \u201cIt\u2019s a very tough fight for George. Johnson has been around, seen it and done it in a near twenty year career so he\u2019ll have bags of experience compared to George. But George is young, fresh, talented and hungry and really wants to prove that he\u2019s the next world champion in waiting. I think that the fans will be for a cracking fight between these two, plus we\u2019ll be announcing Ricky Burns\u2019 challenger shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His retirement didn\u2019t last long. Former IBF light heavyweight champion Glen Johnson will face Commonwealth super middleweight champion George Groveson December 15 at London\u2019s ExCeL. Groves\u2019 promoter Frank Warren confirmed today that Groves and the Jamaican-born Miami-based Johnson will feature as chief support on the multi-title card headlined by WBO world lightweight champion Ricky Burns. […]<\/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":[105,998],"class_list":["post-23634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-glenn-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23634","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=23634"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}