{"id":6631,"date":"2011-01-10T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:32:36","slug":"former-wbo-heavyweight-champion-lamon-brewster-hangs-them-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6631","title":{"rendered":"Former WBO Heavyweight Champion Lamon Brewster Hangs Them Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6632\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"lamon brewster header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lamon-brewster-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>After fourteen years in  the ring, former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster, who has  undergone four unsuccessful surgeries to restore sight in his left eye,  has called a halt to his career in the ring. Brewster, who hasn\u2019t had  sight in his left eye since his bout against Robert Helenius believes  his last opponents gloves were tainted in some fashion. \u201cMy team wasn\u2019t  allowed to inspect Helenius\u2019s gloves or witness his hands being  wrapped,\u201d states Brewster.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI feel I was done wrong, and now with no  sight there is no way I can continue my fighting career.\u201d Brewster will  now put his time into his promotional company Relentless Events, as well  as other projects. Brewster earned the WBO heavyweight title in 2004  when he defeated Wladimir Klitschko; he had three successful defenses  before dropping the title to Sergei Liakhovich in 2006.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fourteen years in the ring, former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster, who has undergone four unsuccessful surgeries to restore sight in his left eye, has called a halt to his career in the ring. Brewster, who hasn\u2019t had sight in his left eye since his bout against Robert Helenius believes his last opponents gloves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,439,2267],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-lamon-brewster","tag-retire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}