{"id":9624,"date":"2011-04-19T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:43:07","slug":"tony-thompson-vs-maurice-harris-set-for-may-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9624","title":{"rendered":"Tony Thompson vs. Maurice Harris Set for May 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9624 \" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9624 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9625\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Tony-Thompson (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Tony-Thompson-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>In a scheduled 12-round IBF heavyweight championship elimination bout, former heavyweight world title challenger Tony \u201cThe Tiger\u201d Thompson (35-2, 23 KOs) goes against newly crowned USBA heavyweight champion Maurice \u201cSugar Mo\u201d Harris (24-14-2, 10 KOs) on May 27 at the 6,000-seat Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. The winner faces IBF #1 Eddie Chambers in a final eliminator.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually fought Maurice Harris some years ago in the \u2018Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament,\u2019 Thompson, who hails from Washington, DC, recalls. \u201cHe beat me in a three-rounder that did not go against our record. Now it\u2019s an opportunity for me to get revenge. And I can guarantee he won\u2019t beat me this time. I\u2019ll stop him in six rounds or under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson-Harris will open an ESPN2 \u201cFriday Night Fights\u201d telecast headlined by Josesito Lopez (29-3, 17 KOs) making the first defense of his NABF light welterweight title against Steve Upsher Chambers (23-1-1, 6 KOs) in a scheduled ten-rounder.<\/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>In a scheduled 12-round IBF heavyweight championship elimination bout, former heavyweight world title challenger Tony \u201cThe Tiger\u201d Thompson (35-2, 23 KOs) goes against newly crowned USBA heavyweight champion Maurice \u201cSugar Mo\u201d Harris (24-14-2, 10 KOs) on May 27 at the 6,000-seat Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. The winner faces IBF #1 Eddie Chambers in [&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":[837,488,716],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ibf","tag-maurice-harris","tag-tony-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","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=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}