{"id":51337,"date":"2015-03-03T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51337"},"modified":"2015-03-03T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T19:39:41","slug":"ask-anne-why-do-boxers-handshake-at-the-start-of-the-a-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51337","title":{"rendered":"Ask Anne: Why do Boxers Handshake at the Start of a Boxing Match?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49641\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Anne-RSR-Pride-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anne RSR Pride\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Anne \u201cBoxologist\u201d Whitlock <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boxers do a handshake by touching knuckles which is how boxers greet each other whether they&#8217;re wearing gloves or not. Touching gloves before the opening bell, is also part of boxing protocol.<!--more--><\/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 \u201cBoxologist\u201d Whitlock Boxers do a handshake by touching knuckles which is how boxers greet each other whether they&#8217;re wearing gloves or not. Touching gloves before the opening bell, is also part of boxing protocol.<\/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":[12291],"class_list":["post-51337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ask-anne-why-do-boxers-handshake-at-the-start-of-a-boxing-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51337","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=51337"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}