{"id":177,"date":"2012-08-01T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-08-01T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:58:16","slug":"heavyweight-boxer-in-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/08\/heavyweight-boxer-in-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight Boxer in the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0692.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSCN0692\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN0692\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0692_thumb.jpg?resize=495%2C356\" width=\"495\" height=\"356\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Harris was on my cave tour today. Joe is a retired heavyweight boxer nicknamed \u201cCut and Shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe was a heavyweight contender during the 1950s. He won his first 23 fights, including consecutive wins against <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willi_Besmanoff\">Willi Besmanoff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Baker\">Bob Baker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_Pastrano\">Willie Pastrano<\/a>, and was named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ring_(magazine)\">Ring Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ring_Magazine_progress_of_the_year\">progress of the year<\/a> for 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Before the bout Roy was on the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sports_Illustrated\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Harris_(boxer)#cite_note-3\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> In August 1958, Harris was given a title shot by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_heavyweight_boxing_champions\">world champion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floyd_Patterson\">Floyd Patterson<\/a>. Harris knocked down the champion in the second round of their fight, but was himself knocked down four times\u2026\u201d (Wikkipedia) <\/p>\n<p>After the cave tour, Joe and I sat and talked about boxing a bit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe, give me one piece of advice about boxing,\u201d I begged. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuck\u201d Joe replied without missing a beat. <\/p>\n<p>He went on to give me some of his best boxing advice, and I was thrilled. <\/p>\n<p>You never know who is going to be on your cave tour. What fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Harris was on my cave tour today. Joe is a retired heavyweight boxer nicknamed \u201cCut and Shoot.\u201d \u201cJoe was a heavyweight contender during the 1950s. He won his first 23 fights, including consecutive wins against Willi Besmanoff, Bob Baker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/08\/heavyweight-boxer-in-the-cave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[996,1003,736,993,1001,994,992,999,998,1000,995,997,1002],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-fun","tag-bob-baker","tag-boxing","tag-cave-tour","tag-cut-and-shoot","tag-floyd-patterson","tag-heavyweight-contender","tag-joe-harris","tag-progress-of-the-year","tag-ring-magazine","tag-sports-illustrated","tag-willi-besmanoff","tag-willie-pastrano","tag-world-champion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5nY-2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}