{"id":64488,"date":"2016-11-05T22:11:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=64488"},"modified":"2016-11-05T22:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:14:51","slug":"former-boxer-gerry-rock-payne-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=64488","title":{"rendered":"Former Boxer Gerry &#8220;Rock&#8221; Payne Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=64488\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=64488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-64489 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Gerry-Rock-Payne-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"gerry-rock-payne\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingalongthebeltway.blogspot.com\/\">BATB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beltway middleweight Gerry &#8220;Rock&#8221; Payne has passed away at the age of 47 years old. No word on the nature of his passing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Payne, a native of Washington, DC, was an outstanding amateur in the mid-to-late eighties, becoming an alternate on the 1988 United States Olympic team. Mr. Payne made a unique pro debut on March 24, 1990 at the Frank Williams Activity Center at Coolidge High School in DC. Payne participated in a six-round debut bout, defeating Walter &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Green by decision. Green was 6-1 with three KO&#8217;s at the time of the bout.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Payne&#8217;s career moved slowly but steadily over eight bouts until legal issues took Payne away for the majority of 1993. Payne returned on April 1, 1994 in Alexandria, VA as a member of the vaunted &#8220;Hard Corps&#8221; boxing team alongside Derrell Coley, Reggie Green and Reuben Bell. Payne would later win an IBC Middleweight title on October 22, 1994 defeating Jeff Johnson by 12-round decision at the Washington Convention Center. Payne would lose his only bout in his final outing dropping a 10-round decision to Daniel Perez on December 13, 1994 in Albuquerque, NM. Payne&#8217;s record was 13-1, five KO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of BATB Beltway middleweight Gerry &#8220;Rock&#8221; Payne has passed away at the age of 47 years old. No word on the nature of his passing. Mr. Payne, a native of Washington, DC, was an outstanding amateur in the mid-to-late eighties, becoming an alternate on the 1988 United States Olympic team. Mr. Payne made a [&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":[16183],"class_list":["post-64488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-former-boxer-gerry-rock-payne-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64488","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=64488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}