{"id":12158,"date":"2023-07-15T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:31:26","slug":"banner-promotions-artie-pelullo-saddened-by-the-passing-of-former-fighter-antwun-echols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=12158","title":{"rendered":"Banner Promotions Artie Pelullo Saddened by the Passing of Former Fighter Antwun Echols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/b4a07ab5ee7a50cb25dcb3992\/images\/4f2bda80-4e74-77f9-2d13-03d0b87f7f98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"297\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (July 13, 2023)&#8211;Banner Promotions President Artie Pelullo would like to send out heartfelt condolences to the family of former fighter and three-time world title challenger Antwun Echols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Echols, who fought under Banner Promotions, unexpectedly passed away in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa at the age of 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While with Banner Promotions, Echols captured both the NABF and USBA Middleweight titles, and twice challenged Bernard Hopkins for the IBF Middleweight World Championship. He also dropped a close decision to WBA Super Middleweight champion Anthony Mundine in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To say I was shocked is understatement,&#8221; said Pelullo. &#8220;I just spoke to Antwun a couple weeks before he passed. He was doing well. He went back to school and got his degree. He would call the office a handful of times a year, and we would have some great conversations. Antwun was a great guy and had a terrific sense of humor. He was a terrific fighter who had an outstanding career. Bernard Hopkins told me that Antwun was the hardest puncher that he had fought, and Antwun gave Bernard two excellent fights. I just want to give condolences to his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA (July 13, 2023)&#8211;Banner Promotions President Artie Pelullo would like to send out heartfelt condolences to the family of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[456],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-antwun-echols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}