{"id":76055,"date":"2018-11-07T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76055"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:24:15","slug":"ringside-report-looks-back-at-boxer-kenny-sigurani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76055","title":{"rendered":"Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxer Kenny Sigurani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76055\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-76056 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/KenSigurani-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>By Daniel Sisneros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Youngstown, Ohio&#8217;s Ken &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; Sigurani turned professional on July 22, 1994. After a very nice amateur career going 44-4 and winning a Golden Gloves Title, he stepped into the paid ranks with a 1st round tko over fellow Ohioan Charles Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny ran his record to 15-0 with 6 knockouts and was given a shot at the WBF Welterweight Title against Bobby Elkins (22-4, 18 ko&#8217;s). It was a great night for Sigurani who stopped the defending champion in the 9th round.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a solid non-title win against Alex Quiroga, Sigurani successfully defended his title against undefeated Robert &#8220;Push-up&#8221; Frazier (13-0, 10 ko) with an impressive unanimous decision over 12 tough rounds.<\/p>\n<p>In his next fight, he tasted defeat for the first time, being stopped in the first round by former IBF Featherweight World Champion Antonio Rivera (34-12-2, 30 ko&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p>Kenny bounced back with a streak of 4 straight victories before ending his career with bouts against two Hall-of-Fame boxing legends &#8211; being stopped by Julio Cesar Chavez in round 3 and his final professional boxing match Oct. 23, 1998 dropping a decision to Hector &#8220;Macho&#8221; Camacho on scores of 97-93 x 2 and 96-94.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny &#8220;the Cobra&#8221; Sigurani ended his pro career with an excellent record of 22 wins, 3 defeats, with 8 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase Dan&#8217;s Hit Boxing Book Mat Tales: True Stories From The Bizarre, Brutal World Of Pro Boxing by Clicking the Image to ORDER it Now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mat-Tales-Stories-Bizarre-Brutal\/dp\/1683901045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72173 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mat.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_4d-KIZyVE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Sisneros Youngstown, Ohio&#8217;s Ken &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; Sigurani turned professional on July 22, 1994. After a very nice amateur career going 44-4 and winning a Golden Gloves Title, he stepped into the paid ranks with a 1st round tko over fellow Ohioan Charles Miller. Kenny ran his record to 15-0 with 6 knockouts and [&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":[19126],"class_list":["post-76055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ringside-report-looks-back-at-boxer-kenny-sigurani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055","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=76055"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}