{"id":83161,"date":"2019-10-12T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T20:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83161"},"modified":"2019-10-12T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T20:49:44","slug":"ringside-report-looks-back-at-boxer-sean-mcclain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83161","title":{"rendered":"Ringside Report Looks Back at Boxer Sean McClain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83161\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=83161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83162 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Seanposter-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Seanposter-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Seanposter.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Daniel &#8220;The Boxing Guru&#8221; Sisneros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nickname: &#8220;Irish&#8221; Sean<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hard punching Cruiserweight Sean McClain started his pro boxing career on July 21, 1988 with a 1st round knockout over Tony Massey. He quickly ran his record to 9-1, 9 ko&#8217;s before giving up nearly 20 pounds and facing heavyweight contender Joe Hipp at the Showboat Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight was stopped at the end of the 4th round resulting in a tko win for Hipp.<\/p>\n<p>Sean fought for and won the vacant IBC Cruiserweight Championship on June 29, 1994 with a 1st round tko over Kevin Wyrick. McClain was mentioned as a possible opponent for Thomas Hearns a few times, but that bout never materialized.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He fought his last pro bout on March 10th of 2007, going out with a 2nd round tko win over Vernon Woodward. Sean finished his pro boxing career with a mark of 23-8-1, 21 ko&#8217;s.<\/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\/WuM6lG_KPHg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Daniel &#8220;The Boxing Guru&#8221; Sisneros Nickname: &#8220;Irish&#8221; Sean Hard punching Cruiserweight Sean McClain started his pro boxing career on July 21, 1988 with a 1st round knockout over Tony Massey. He quickly ran his record to 9-1, 9 ko&#8217;s before giving up nearly 20 pounds and facing heavyweight contender Joe Hipp at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20835],"class_list":["post-83161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ringside-report-looks-back-at-boxer-sean-mcclain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83161","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=83161"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}