{"id":12163,"date":"2023-11-01T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:56:02","slug":"banner-promotions-artie-pelullo-saddened-by-the-passing-of-former-fighter-eric-griffin%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=12163","title":{"rendered":"Banner Promotions Artie Pelullo Saddened by the Passing of Former Fighter Eric Griffin\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (November 1, 2023)\u2013Banner Promotions President Artie Pelullo would like to send out heartfelt condolences to the family of former fighter and world title challenger Eric Griffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin, who fought under Banner Promotions, passed away in his home state of Louisiana at the age of 55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric had an explosive amateur career in boxing. Starting at the age of 11, it was clear that Eric had a gift. Eric won the Junior National Golden Gloves. Rising into the open division Eric continued his championship journey. Eric won several National Golden Globe Championships; National AAU and he was five-time World Cup Champion, He went on to represent the Unites States of America as Captain of 1992 Olympic Team in Barcelona, Spain, a 106-pound open division, not long after Eric turned Pro. Eric won several belts before going into retirement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEric was a great guy and had a terrific sense of humor,&#8221; said Pelullo. &#8220;He was a terrific fighter who had an outstanding amateur and professional career. I want to give my heartfelt condolences to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (November 1, 2023)\u2013Banner Promotions President Artie Pelullo would like to send out heartfelt condolences to the family of former fighter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","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=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}