{"id":51033,"date":"2015-02-20T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51033"},"modified":"2015-02-20T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:29:26","slug":"palooka-what-does-it-mean-in-boxing-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51033","title":{"rendered":"Palooka: What Does It Mean in Boxing Terms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51033\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51034 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Palooka.jpg\" alt=\"Palooka\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Anne &#8220;Boxologist&#8221; Whitlock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spend most of my time answering questions given to me by fans and followers of which I enjoy doing so..Here is one of my favorite requests asked of me.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What does Palooka mean in boxing and where does it come from?<\/strong><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A palooka is a tenth rater, a nobody, and a lousy boxer with no ability who usually loses his fights in four or six rounds to boxers who are just starting out in their careers. It&#8217;s synonymous with tomato can or ham and egger. There was a comic strip created by Ham Fisher in 1928 that featured a good-hearted, slow-witted and inarticulate boxer named Joe Palooka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne &#8220;Boxologist&#8221; Whitlock I spend most of my time answering questions given to me by fans and followers of which I enjoy doing so..Here is one of my favorite requests asked of me. What does Palooka mean in boxing and where does it come from?<\/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":[12176],"class_list":["post-51033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-palooka-what-does-it-mean-in-boxing-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51033","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=51033"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}