{"id":82711,"date":"2019-10-01T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82711"},"modified":"2019-10-01T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:59:22","slug":"undefeated-chris-sandman-thomas-takes-on-roy-king-on-october-5th-in-delaware-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82711","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Chris &#8220;Sandman&#8221; Thomas takes on Roy King on October 5th in Delaware &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82711\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-82712 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mail-2.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Undefeated light heavyweight, Chris Thomas will be featured in the co-main event on a Dee Lee Promotions card when he takes on Roy King from Johnson City, Tennessee this Saturday night at the Hockessin PAL in Hockessin, Delaware<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old &#8220;Sandman&#8221; has upped his resume to 13-0-1 with eight knockouts when he scored wins over Dennis Knifechief (12-8) and Joe Hughes (6-1). In his last fight that took place on July 20th in Hampton, New Hampshire, Thomas stopped Francisco Neto in 2:10 of the first round.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/neVjBxQ4xXs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>He averages four fights a year since turning pro as an 18-year-old . He&#8217;s employed by Shore Point Dist and is a Teamster. He&#8217;s managed and trained by Shawn Darling at Lacey Township&#8217;s Gladiator Gym.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s had a great camp sparring with world ranked southpaws, Fanlong Meng (15-0) and Derrick Webster (28-2) to prepare for the left-handed King,&#8221; said Darling.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas won the New Jersey Middleweight belt that was once held by Bobby Czyz with a third round TKO over Darrell Bunting on June 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas recently broke into the NABF rankings at number 20, and is challenging King for the vacant WBC USNBC silver 175-pound belt that reigning WBA champ, Dmitry Bivol recently held. Thomas is hoping that a victory would move him up the North American rankings<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is a promotional free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] \u00a0Undefeated light heavyweight, Chris Thomas will be featured in the co-main event on a Dee Lee Promotions card when he takes on Roy King from Johnson City, Tennessee this Saturday night at the Hockessin PAL in Hockessin, Delaware The 21-year-old &#8220;Sandman&#8221; has upped his resume to 13-0-1 with eight knockouts when he scored wins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20729],"class_list":["post-82711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-undefeated-chris-sandman-thomas-takes-on-roy-king-on-october-5th-in-delaware-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82711","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=82711"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}