{"id":35142,"date":"2014-02-03T01:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35142"},"modified":"2014-02-03T01:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:37:50","slug":"marvin-hagler-80s-middleweight-division-and-life-after-boxing-mustafo-hamsho-is-proud-to-discuss-his-boxing-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35142","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Hagler, 80&#8217;s Middleweight Division and Life After Boxing: Mustafa  Hamsho Is Proud to Discuss his Boxing Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=196\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-192\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Mustafa-M\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Mustafa-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><strong>Exclusive Interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Interview conducted in 2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s very nice to be remembered from an Era that was very strong in the Middleweight Division.\u201d&#8211;Mustafa Hamsho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the history of boxing, we have had so many diverse personalities come through the sport. Some were hailed as the \u201cGolden Boy\u2019s\u201d while others were labeled as \u201cBlack Bart\u201d the guy who wore all black in the movie westerns and was supposed to be the bad guy. Mustafa Hamsho throughout his career was labeled the bad guy, but titles can be quite deceiving. During our interview, Hamsho was honored to be remembered and spoke fondly about his boxing career that saw him rise to the top of the middleweight ranks, twice challenging, Marvelous Marvin Hagler for his Undisputed Middleweight Championship of the World.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt in today\u2019s boxing; Hamsho would have been a World Champion and excited fans as he did in his heyday\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/?p=18125\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Click here to read the rest of:\u00a0Marvin Hagler, 80&#8217;s Middleweight Division and Life After Boxing: Mustafa \u00a0Hamsho Is Proud to Discuss his Boxing Career<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive Interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt (Interview conducted in 2006) \u201cIt\u2019s very nice to be remembered from an Era that was very strong in the Middleweight Division.\u201d&#8211;Mustafa Hamsho In the history of boxing, we have had so many diverse personalities come through the sport. Some were hailed as the \u201cGolden Boy\u2019s\u201d while others were labeled [&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":[9743,486],"class_list":["post-35142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-80s-middleweight-division-and-life-after-boxing-mustafo-hamsho-is-proud-to-discuss-his-boxing-career","tag-marvin-hagler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142","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=35142"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}