{"id":53478,"date":"2015-06-21T00:09:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53478"},"modified":"2015-06-21T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T05:09:14","slug":"andre-ward-stops-an-unprofessional-and-overweight-paul-smith-in-the-9th-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53478","title":{"rendered":"Andre Ward Stops an Unprofessional and OVERWEIGHT Paul Smith in the 9th Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1058\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1058\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1058_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"e4ae8a4e84\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1058\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do you think Boxing needs to FINALLY do something about the weight issues of fighters come fight night?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1058-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2895\" name=\"poll_1058\" value=\"2895\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2895\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2896\" name=\"poll_1058\" value=\"2896\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2896\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1058);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1058); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1058-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53478 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=53478 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53300 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Andre-Ward.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Ward\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WBA Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward, 28-0,15 KO\u2019s defeated an overweight and unprofessional Paul Smith, 35-6, 20 KO\u2019s in a very one sided fight when the referee called a halt to the bout last night in the ninth round when the Smith corner threw in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>Something has got to be done with the over the weight limits in boxing and done right NOW! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt WBA Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward, 28-0,15 KO\u2019s defeated an overweight and unprofessional Paul Smith, 35-6, 20 KO\u2019s in a very one sided fight when the referee called a halt to the bout last night in the ninth round when the Smith corner threw in the towel. Something has got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10928],"tags":[13088],"class_list":["post-53478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","category-columns-by-bad-brad-berkwitt","tag-andre-ward-stops-an-unprofessional-and-overweight-paul-smith-in-the-9th-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478","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=53478"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}