{"id":35157,"date":"2014-02-03T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35157"},"modified":"2014-02-03T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:09:19","slug":"prince-naseem-hamed-jorge-paez-and-many-title-defenses-tom-boom-boom-johnson-gets-his-just-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35157","title":{"rendered":"Prince Naseem Hamed, Jorge Paez and Many Title Defenses: Tom &#8220;Boom Boom&#8221; Johnson Gets His Just Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35157\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35155\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Tom Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/Tom-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/Tom-Johnson.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/Tom-Johnson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Exclusive Interview by &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Interview conducted in 2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">You just don\u2019t know what this interview for RSR means to me after all these years of not being mentioned\u201d&#8211;Tom \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Johnson<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">A man goes through life plying his trade to maintain not only himself, but also his family in the process. This man may be a carpenter, a truck driver, a Wall Street broker, or, in this case, a World Champion prize fighter. All men yearn for respect when they give their profession everything they have. Desiring recognition in ones respective field from their peers is a very human trait. Former IBF Featherweight Champion Tom \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Johnson went to the mountaintop of the boxing world firmly digging his stake into the record books when on February 26, 1993, he beat then IBF Featherweight Champion, Manuel Medina, via split decision for the belt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Respect came for the new champion, you would think. Well, you would be wrong. Ok the boxing world says to Johnson, \u201cProve yourself\u201d. Johnson replies, \u201cSure I will\u201d. And over the next four years, he wins in eleven title defenses along with a few non-title fights as well. Now he gets the respect he deserves right? Wrong again! He is hardly ever mentioned in the boxing world and this is a crime to say the least.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Only in title defense number twelve when he loses via TKO to, then WBO Featherweight Champion, Prince Naseem Hamed, does he get some press, but just that he lost the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/2014\/02\/03\/former-ibf-featherweight-champion-tom-boom-boom-johnson-goes-on-the-record\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Click here to read the rest of:\u00a0Prince Naseem Hamed, Jorge Paez and Many Title Defenses: Tom &#8220;Boom Boom&#8221; Johnson Gets His Just Due<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive Interview by &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt (Interview conducted in 2006) \u201cYou just don\u2019t know what this interview for RSR means to me after all these years of not being mentioned\u201d&#8211;Tom \u201cBoom Boom\u201d Johnson A man goes through life plying his trade to maintain not only himself, but also his family in the process. This man [&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":[9747,2140],"class_list":["post-35157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jorge-paez-and-many-title-defenses-tom-boom-boom-johnson-gets-his-just-due","tag-prince-naseem-hamed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157","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=35157"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}