{"id":47324,"date":"2014-11-04T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47324"},"modified":"2014-11-04T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T23:52:39","slug":"glen-johnson-returns-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47324","title":{"rendered":"Glen Johnson Returns &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4<a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47324 \" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=47324 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6118 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Glen-Johnson8-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"Glen-Johnson8 (Copy)\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>5-year-old former world champion Glen Johnson (54-19-2, 37 KOs) will face unbeaten Erik Skoglund (21-0, 11 KOs) on December 13 at the Albertslund MusikTeatret in Copenhagen, Denmark. Skogland is rated IBF #3 and WBO #4 at light heavyweight. Johnson is returning to light heavyweight after a TKO9 loss to cruiserweight Ilunga Makabu in June.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkoglund is good boxer with a lot of potential,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cBut I think my experience will play a big part in this fight. I know what I have to do and on December 13, I\u2019m going to get in there and get the job done. There is still a lot more I want to achieve. I want become world champion again. I wouldn\u2019t still be boxing if I didn\u2019t think I could do it. By beating a young, up and coming fighter like Skoglund, I will put myself right back in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\">RSR Is NOW Hiring Boxing Writers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45-year-old former world champion Glen Johnson (54-19-2, 37 KOs) will face unbeaten Erik Skoglund (21-0, 11 KOs) on December 13 at the Albertslund MusikTeatret in Copenhagen, Denmark. Skogland is rated IBF #3 and WBO #4 at light heavyweight. Johnson is returning to light heavyweight after a TKO9 loss to cruiserweight Ilunga Makabu in June.<\/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":[11009],"class_list":["post-47324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-glen-johnson-returns-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324","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=47324"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}