{"id":6152,"date":"2014-11-28T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2014-12-28T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T20:57:59","slug":"the-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/28\/the-boxer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_ROURKE_BOXING_EXHIBITION?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-11-28-13-55-58\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"headline entry-title\">Mickey Rourke wins exhibition bout in Moscow <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"ap-smallphoto-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/news\/category\/0,,personsTax:MickeyRourke,00.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2014\/news\/141208\/mickey-rourke-320.jpg\" alt=\"AP Photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em><span class=\"ap-smallphoto-font-photo photo\"><span class=\"apCaption\">Image courtesy People Magazine<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW (AP) &#8212; Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout.<\/p>\n<p>Rourke sent 29-year-old Pasadena native Elliot Seymour to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The bout at a Moscow concert hall was Rourke&#8217;s first fight in 20 years. He took a break from acting in the early 1990s, finishing a three-year pro boxing career with six wins and two draws.<\/p>\n<p>He hinted that the return to the ring has helped him cope with unspecified personal issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got some things going on in my life so that (boxing has) sort of saved me from myself,&#8221; Rourke told Russian TV. &#8220;And for a man like me, it&#8217;s better to live in fear than go on in shame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_ROURKE_BOXING_EXHIBITION?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-11-28-13-55-58\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at AP.org<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP Mickey Rourke wins exhibition bout in Moscow Image courtesy People Magazine MOSCOW (AP) &#8212; Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke returned to the boxing ring Friday at the age of 62, defeating a fighter less than half his age in an exhibition bout. Rourke sent 29-year-old Pasadena native Elliot Seymour to the canvas twice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}