{"id":6977,"date":"2011-05-23T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:26:03","slug":"hopkins-makes-history-yet-again-with-latest-age-defying-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6977","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins Makes History Yet Again With Latest Age-Defying Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The record will reflect that 46-year-old<strong> Bernard Hopkins <\/strong>became the oldest world champion in boxing history Saturday night, thoroughly dominating <strong>Jean Pascal<\/strong> for the light heavyweight title in a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>But the agate type will only tell half the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hopkins<\/strong> not only outpointed, outboxed and outthought the younger champion, but he pulled it off with nearly every intangible breaking against him.<\/p>\n<p>He did it in <strong>Pascal\u2019s<\/strong> hometown, before a hostile sellout crowd of 17,560 at Montreal&#8217;s Bell Centre, where many observers thought it&#8217;d be nearly impossible for him to win a decision.<\/p>\n<p>He did it despite not one, but two potentially fatal missed knockdown calls by referee <strong>Ian John-Lewis<\/strong>, who failed to see when <strong>Pascal&#8217;s<\/strong> glove brushed the canvas in the ninth and 10th rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The record will reflect that 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins became the oldest world champion in boxing history Saturday night, thoroughly dominating Jean Pascal for the light heavyweight title in a unanimous decision. But the agate type will only tell half the story. Hopkins not only outpointed, outboxed and outthought the younger champion, but he pulled it [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","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=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}