{"id":126991,"date":"2025-05-24T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126991\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T03:52:08","slug":"for-every-mike-tyson-theres-many-more-johnny-fishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126991\/","title":{"rendered":"For every Mike Tyson there\u2019s many more Johnny Fishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">The United Kingdom has a long history of churning out promising big men. Pele Reid, a former kickboxer who once knocked out Vitali Klitschko with a spinning round kick, was one such highly regarded up-and-comer as he won his first 13 bouts by stoppage, seven of which in the first round. The 18-7 Julius Francis, even though British champion, was expected to meet a similar fate in 1999 before he drew all the energy from his crude foe and scored a knockout himself in the third round. Francis would go on to snare a date with Tyson but Reid, particularly after some homicidal matchmaking paired him with Orlin Norris in his comeback bout, drifted out of contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom has a long history of churning out promising big men. Pele Reid, a former kickboxer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,4495,56085,56084,12108,5121,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-126991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-heavyweight-prospects","12":"tag-heavyweight-prospects-fall","13":"tag-johnny-fisher","14":"tag-mike-tyson","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114560784510155626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}