{"id":45195,"date":"2012-10-02T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22600"},"modified":"2012-10-02T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:30:59","slug":"danny-garcia-to-be-honored-as-philly-fighter-of-the-year-on-october-7th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45195","title":{"rendered":"Danny Garcia to be HONORED as &quot;Philly Fighter of the Year&quot; on October 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22600\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=22600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20013\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"garcia header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/garcia-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>World Champion boxer Danny Garcia, of Philadelphia, will be named the \u201cPhilly Fighter of the Year\u201d at the 5th Annual Briscoe Awards, Sunday, October 7, 2012. Garcia will receive the coveted Briscoe Award which is named after and in the image of 1970s Philadelphia boxing legend Bennie Briscoe. \u201cI\u2019m happy to get my hometown\u2019s support,\u201d Garcia said about winning the Briscoe Award. \u201cIt means a lot to me, because there are a lot of great fighters from Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional Briscoe Awards will be presented to cruiserweight Garrett Wilson who scored the \u201cPhilly KO of the Year\u201d, and to Juan Rodriguez Jr. and Greg Hackett for their \u201cPhilly Fight of the Year.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust even being mentioned for the Briscoe\u2019s is a great thing for me,\u201d said Philadelphia fighter Greg Hackett. \u201cIt means I\u2019m going to go down in Philly history with guys like Steve Cunningham and (Gabriel) Rosado. It was surprising to win, but I wanted to win so bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amateur boxer, Anthony Burgin will receive the \u201cEverett Brothers Award\u201d, which is given to an outstanding amateur boxer every year by the fighting Everett family of Philadelphia. Brothers Mike, Eddie and Tyrone Everett were all Philly fighters in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>A museum exhibit dedicated to former bantamweight champion Jeff Chandler will be part of the event, and Chandler will presented with a new WBA championship belt during the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is presented by Philly Boxing History, begins at 3:00 PM, and is open to the public. The address is 2733 E. Clearfield Street, Philadelphia, 19134.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact John DiSanto of Philly Boxing History, 609-377-6413<\/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>World Champion boxer Danny Garcia, of Philadelphia, will be named the \u201cPhilly Fighter of the Year\u201d at the 5th Annual Briscoe Awards, Sunday, October 7, 2012. Garcia will receive the coveted Briscoe Award which is named after and in the image of 1970s Philadelphia boxing legend Bennie Briscoe. \u201cI\u2019m happy to get my hometown\u2019s support,\u201d [&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":[6648,7393],"class_list":["post-45195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-danny-garcia","tag-philly-fighter-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45195","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=45195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}