{"id":12850,"date":"2017-10-29T01:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T23:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/29\/anthony-joshua-thumps-boxing-into-the-big-time-but-its-gloves-off-for-fans\/"},"modified":"2017-10-29T01:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T23:40:42","slug":"anthony-joshua-thumps-boxing-into-the-big-time-but-its-gloves-off-for-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12850","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua thumps boxing into the big time \u2013 but it\u2019s gloves off for fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol and cocaine blamed for crowd violence at local fights, with one announcer appealing: \u2018Gentlemen, this is not football\u2019These are heady times for boxing. Crossover stars such as Anthony Joshua, who last night defended his world heavyweight titles, are broadening the sport\u2019s appeal beyond traditional audiences, sending interest soaring. Joshua\u2019s fight against Carlos Takam at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium took place in front of the largest ever crowd for an indoor bout.Yet outside the ring, shadows have been cast by a spate of violent episodes among spectators, including what police describe as \u201clarge-scale disorder\u201d outside one event this month, when a young man was stabbed to death. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/oct\/28\/anthony-joshua-carlos-takam-cardiff\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua thumps boxing into the big time \u2013 but it\u2019s gloves off for fans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol and cocaine blamed for crowd violence at local fights, with one announcer appealing: \u2018Gentlemen, this is not football\u2019These are heady times for boxing. Crossover stars such as Anthony Joshua, who last night defended his world heavyweight titles, are broadening the sport\u2019s appeal beyond traditional audiences, sending interest soaring. Joshua\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}