{"id":13563,"date":"2012-03-26T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:08:56","slug":"usher-set-to-play-sugar-ray-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13563","title":{"rendered":"Usher Set To Play Sugar Ray Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crooner <strong>Usher Raymond<\/strong> is all set to play boxing legend, <strong>Sugar Ray Leonard<\/strong> in a forthcoming biopic about the life of Panamanian champion fighter, <strong>Roberto Dur\u00e1n<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The film, <em>\u2018Hands of Stone,\u2019<\/em> will also feature actors <strong>Robert DeNiro<\/strong> and <strong>Gael Bernal<\/strong>, reports the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Usher<\/strong>, who was spotted in London recently, has been putting the finishing touches on an album, as well as training for the film.<\/p>\n<p>If you guys see me running around London that\u2019s what it is.\u00a0 If you see me in the corners boxing. I\u2019m doing that while working on this album.\u201d<br \/>\nFilming is slated to begin later this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sugar Ray Leonard<\/strong> was a phenomenal fighter who was named \u201cBoxer of the Decade\u201d in the 80&#8217;s.\u00a0 He was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses and managed to win world titles in five weight divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crooner Usher Raymond is all set to play boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard in a forthcoming biopic about the life of Panamanian champion fighter, Roberto Dur\u00e1n. The film, \u2018Hands of Stone,\u2019 will also feature actors Robert DeNiro and Gael Bernal, reports the BBC. Usher, who was spotted in London recently, has been putting the finishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}