{"id":52558,"date":"2015-05-11T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52558"},"modified":"2015-05-11T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:23:51","slug":"wbc-featherweight-champion-gary-russell-honored-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52558","title":{"rendered":"WBC Featherweight Champion Gary Russell, JR. Honored &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52558\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=52558\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-52559 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gary-Russell-Jr-ceremony-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Russell Jr ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gary-Russell-Jr-ceremony-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gary-Russell-Jr-ceremony.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingalongthebeltway.blogspot.com\/\">BATB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday a sizable group of fans came to the District Heights Municipal Center in District Heights, MD to honor the new WBC Featherweight Champion &#8220;Mr.&#8221; Gary Russell, Jr. during a festive outdoor ceremony. Fans were able to get autographs and pose for pictures with the new champion who won his title in March with a fourth-round TKO over Jhonny Gonzalez.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from both the governments of District Heights and nearby Capitol Heights, MD (where Russell grew up) presented proclamations and Russell also received a congratulatory letter from Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the World Boxing Council.<\/p>\n<p>Russell told reporters in attendance that he may be back in action sometime in July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/newzbreaker-management-team\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/newzbreaker.com\/imagez\/nbad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of BATB This past Saturday a sizable group of fans came to the District Heights Municipal Center in District Heights, MD to honor the new WBC Featherweight Champion &#8220;Mr.&#8221; Gary Russell, Jr. during a festive outdoor ceremony. Fans were able to get autographs and pose for pictures with the new champion who won his [&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":[12772,12771],"class_list":["post-52558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jr-honored-boxing-news","tag-wbc-featherweight-champion-gary-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52558","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=52558"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}