{"id":136,"date":"2016-09-27T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/?p=136"},"modified":"2017-10-22T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T20:23:55","slug":"could-mike-tyson-be-in-line-to-fight-for-the-police-gazette-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/could-mike-tyson-be-in-line-to-fight-for-the-police-gazette-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Mike Tyson Be in Line to Fight for the Police Gazette Belt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of months the internet rumor mill has been concocting a narrative that posits a return to the ring for Mike Tyson. But not in the way you might think. In the ring though he may be, this story has him not lacing up the gloves. He\u2019d be going bare knuckle against <em>Police Gazette<\/em>-authorized world bare knuckle champion Bobby Gunn.<\/p>\n<p>One would be wise to dismiss the assertions as fantasy, if there weren\u2019t some real smoke in the tale, if not fire. Now, no less an authority than <em>The Ring<\/em> magazine (the successor to the <em>Police Gazette<\/em> as the world&#8217;s boxing authority) has looked into the claim and put it to rest, or have they? You be the judge&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringtv.com\/466384-bobby-gunn-vs-mike-tyson-bare-knuckle-brawl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Gunn vs Mike Tyson in a Bare-Knuckle Brawl?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringtv.com\/466384-bobby-gunn-vs-mike-tyson-bare-knuckle-brawl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bobby-Gunn-Photo-credit-Dan-Howlett-Barcroft-USA-358x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bobby-Gunn-Photo-credit-Dan-Howlett-Barcroft-USA-358x224.jpg 358w, http:\/\/policegazette.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bobby-Gunn-Photo-credit-Dan-Howlett-Barcroft-USA-358x224-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of months the internet rumor mill has been concocting a narrative that posits a return to the ring for Mike Tyson. But not in the way you might think. In the ring though he may be, this story has him not lacing up the gloves. He\u2019d be going bare knuckle against &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/could-mike-tyson-be-in-line-to-fight-for-the-police-gazette-belt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could Mike Tyson Be in Line to Fight for the Police Gazette Belt?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bare-knuckle-boxing","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/policegazette.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}