{"id":15187,"date":"2011-11-18T08:46:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15187"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:08:36","slug":"no-show-opponent-for-the-tank-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/no-show-opponent-for-the-tank-in-russia","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No Show&#8217; Opponent For The Tank In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15229\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15229\" title=\"sherman-tank-williams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sherman-tank-williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sherman-tank-williams.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sherman-tank-williams-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherman &#39;Tank&#39; Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It appears as if no one wants to get into the ring with Bahamian professional heavyweight boxer, Sherman &#8220;The Tank&#8221; Williams.<\/p>\n<p>After world heavyweight champion, Evander Holyfield refused to have a rematch with &#8220;The Tank&#8221;, other opponents are also considering just how dangerous it could be to go head-to-head with Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tank&#8221; flew to Russia for a five week training session in preparation for a fight with a Russian heavyweight boxer, but after training for a few weeks in Russia, two weeks before the scheduled fight, the Russian boxer backed out, his promoter revealing that he had a fractured hand.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers rustled up another opponent for Williams, who was still in the gym sparring and training. The new opponent was one from Lithuanian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian professional heavyweight boxer, Sherman &#8220;The Tank&#8221; Williams was in Russia for a fight but his opponent didn&#8217;t show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132,131],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-boxing","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}