{"id":9611,"date":"2011-04-19T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2011-04-19T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T21:56:02","slug":"andy-lee-popular-irish-middleweight-returning-to-boxing-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9611","title":{"rendered":"Andy Lee: Popular Irish Middleweight Returning to Boxing Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-773\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Andy Lee Header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Andy-Lee-Header11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, May 18, Hitz Boxing and its founder, Bobby Hitz, will return to where it all began, Rosemont, Illinois, for another night of world-class boxing entitled the &#8220;Rosemont Rumble&#8221; at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The night&#8217;s main event will feature popular Irish Middleweight contender Andy Lee (25-1, 19 KOs).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unlike most top contenders, Lee will be getting back in the ring just a couple months after scoring a sensational come-from-behind tenth-round knockout against the previously unbeaten Craig McEwan while the HBO cameras rolled.<\/p>\n<p>When Bobby Hitz first transitioned from heavyweight boxer to promoter, he embarked on what became a legendary 12-year series of shows in Rosemont entitled the Ramada Rumbles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are back to where it all started,&#8221; said an enthusiastic Hitz. &#8220;And in the spirit of going back to the glory days, we&#8217;ve got an old-school-type of fighter, Andy Lee, who is one of the most exciting sluggers in boxing in the main event. He&#8217;s not your usual big-name boxer. Andy doesn&#8217;t want to lay around. He wants to keep busy and stay sharp while he waits for his title shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald E. Stephens Convention Center is located at 555 N. River Road. All opponents and ticket information will follow shortly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 18, Hitz Boxing and its founder, Bobby Hitz, will return to where it all began, Rosemont, Illinois, for another night of world-class boxing entitled the &#8220;Rosemont Rumble&#8221; at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The night&#8217;s main event will feature popular Irish Middleweight contender Andy Lee (25-1, 19 KOs).<\/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":[58,105,355,532],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-andy-lee","tag-boxing","tag-irish","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","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=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}