{"id":853,"date":"2010-01-27T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:16:15","slug":"maurice-harris-returns-friday-night-against-billy-zumbrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Harris returns Friday night against Billy Zumbrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-846\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Press Release header\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Press-Release-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Dangerous <strong>Maurice <\/strong>\u201cSugar Moe\u201d <strong>Harris<\/strong>, returns to the ring Friday night in Albuquerque against veteran <strong>Billy<\/strong> \u201cThe Kid\u201d <strong>Zumbrun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Harris (20-14-2, 10 KOs), winner of the 2002 \u2018Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament,\u201d has been inactive for more than two years due to promotional problems. His fight against battled-tested Zumbrun marks Harris\u2019 debut as a member of the new Boxing 360 stable.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, Harris knocked out previously unbeaten and future world title-holder Sergey Lyakhovich (16-0) in the ninth round. Harris earned a spot in that November\u2019s \u201cThunderbox\u201d tournament, eventually capturing the $100,000 winner\u2019s purse by out-pointing\u00a0 Gerald Nobles, Israel Garcia and Anthony Thompson, respectively, in 3-round matches in the same evening.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of his up-and-down career, Maurice has also defeated David Izon, Jimmy Thunder and Jeremy Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Harris fought only four times in the last six years and he\u2019s anxious to get back into the heavyweight picture. \u201cI\u2019m ready and feel great,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI\u2019m older, wiser and my experience is my greatest advantage. I\u2019m going to really crack this guy and show people some new things that they haven\u2019t seen from me. Look out heavyweights!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dangerous Maurice \u201cSugar Moe\u201d Harris, returns to the ring Friday night in Albuquerque against veteran Billy \u201cThe Kid\u201d Zumbrun. The 33-year-old Harris (20-14-2, 10 KOs), winner of the 2002 \u2018Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament,\u201d has been inactive for more than two years due to promotional problems. His fight against battled-tested Zumbrun marks Harris\u2019 debut as a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}