{"id":71824,"date":"2018-05-21T13:54:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71824"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:55:23","slug":"jonathan-steele-stops-steven-upsher-in-five-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71824","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Steele Stops Steven Upsher in Five &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71824\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-71825 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2612-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2612-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_2612-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Right idea, wrong fight&#8221;, those were the words of Dallas welterweight, Jonathan Steele who gained his 8th victory as a professional on WFC 87 at Meadows Racetrack and Casino. Steele, who entered the ring on Saturday with 9 fights under his belt squared off against the seasoned veteran, Steven Upsher, 25-5-1(6kos), who was attempting a comeback bid in front of his hometown crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Steele dominated the fight from the opening bell, banging Upsher to the body, which ultimately led to the 31 fight veteran to quit in the 5th round of their scheduled 8 round bout. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We took the fight on a two week notice. My initial fight on May 18th was canceled, and Upsher&#8217;s opponent pulled out at the last minute. I didn&#8217;t care what his record was, or who he fought. I knew he had never faced a guy like me before.&#8221; Steele added.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year old former United States Marine is managed by Dallas based boxing manager, Adrian Clark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Right idea, wrong fight&#8221;, those were the words of Dallas welterweight, Jonathan Steele who gained his 8th victory as a professional on WFC 87 at Meadows Racetrack and Casino. Steele, who entered the ring on Saturday with 9 fights under his belt squared off against the seasoned veteran, Steven Upsher, 25-5-1(6kos), who was attempting 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":[18085],"class_list":["post-71824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jonathan-steele-stops-steven-upsher-in-five-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824","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=71824"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}