{"id":56488,"date":"2015-11-03T01:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T06:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56488"},"modified":"2015-11-03T01:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T06:06:42","slug":"tony-thompson-set-to-retire-from-boxing-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56488","title":{"rendered":"Tony Thompson Set to Retire from Boxing? &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56488\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=56488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9625 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Tony-Thompson-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"Tony-Thompson (Copy)\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>\u201cHe was just too fast,\u201d said heavyweight Tony Thompson (40-6, 27 KOs) after dropping a ten round unanimous decision to nine-years-younger Malik Scott (38-2-1, 13 KOs) on Friday night in Orlando, Florida. \u201cIf I were younger I would have caught him. A prime Tony would have kicked his ass, but I\u2019m 44 and the years are starting to pile up.\u00a0\u201cMalik did a great job of staying away until I was able to catch him with one good shot. He just pitty-patted his way to victory.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rate my performance a D at best. I was the aggressor but I didn\u2019t cut him off good enough until late in the fight. My coach kept telling me to go to the right but for whatever reason I only started going to the right late in the fight. That was when I caught him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an outstanding performance by Malik. He did what he\u2019s supposed to do to an older fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the Washington DC-based Thompson\u2019s first appearance in the United States since 2011.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynqIr3bh1Wo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe was just too fast,\u201d said heavyweight Tony Thompson (40-6, 27 KOs) after dropping a ten round unanimous decision to nine-years-younger Malik Scott (38-2-1, 13 KOs) on Friday night in Orlando, Florida. \u201cIf I were younger I would have caught him. A prime Tony would have kicked his ass, but I\u2019m 44 and the years [&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":[14050],"class_list":["post-56488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-tony-thompson-set-to-retire-from-boxing-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488","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=56488"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}