{"id":36724,"date":"2014-03-07T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36724"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:00:56","slug":"bernard-hopkins-vs-beibut-shumenov-shocker-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36724","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Hopkins Vs. Beibut Shumenov SHOCKER: Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36724 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=36724 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13484\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"beibut_header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/beibut_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>On Saturday, April 19, IBF light heavyweight world champion Bernard Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KOs) faces WBA world champion Beibut Shumenov (14-1, 9 KOs) in an attempt, at 49-years-old, to become the oldest fighter in boxing history to unify world titles. Washington DC\u2019s \u201cDC Armory,\u201d the site of several championship boxing matches in the last year, will host the return of the future Hall of Famer. In the co-main event, popular undefeated WBO middleweight world champion Peter \u201cKid Chocolate\u201d Quillin (30-0, 22 KOs) defends his title for the third time when he meets WBO European titleholder and former interim WBO junior middleweight champion Lukas Konecny (50-4, 23 KOs).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that my one of my biggest goals has been to unify the titles and getting to do that in a city where I have a lot of history is the best-case scenario,\u201d said Hopkins, who defended his middleweight title with a seventh-round technical knockout of Robert Allen in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 6, 1999. \u201cI\u2019m coming back to break another record by unifying the title and I\u2019m looking to get my first knockout since I fought Oscar De La Hoya in 2004. I know Shumenov is tough, but I\u2019m tougher and I\u2019m not going to let him make a name for himself by being the one to stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets priced at $25, $50, $75, $200 and $300 go on sale today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/2014\/02\/03\/former-two-time-middleweight-title-challenger-mustafa-hamsho-looks-back\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Read: Former Two Time Middleweight Title Challenger Mustafa Hamsho Looks Back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, April 19, IBF light heavyweight world champion Bernard Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KOs) faces WBA world champion Beibut Shumenov (14-1, 9 KOs) in an attempt, at 49-years-old, to become the oldest fighter in boxing history to unify world titles. Washington DC\u2019s \u201cDC Armory,\u201d the site of several championship boxing matches in the last year, [&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":[10098],"class_list":["post-36724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-bernard-hopkins-vs-beibut-shumenov-shocker-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36724","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=36724"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}