{"id":7590,"date":"2014-03-23T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2014-03-23T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:04:41","slug":"pelullo-comments-on-mickey-duff-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=7590","title":{"rendered":"Pelullo comments on Mickey Duff passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dan Rafael of espn.com<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Duff, one of England&#8217;s most famed promoters, managers and matchmakers, died on Saturday. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>Duff, whose reputation as an honest dealmaker was his hallmark, worked with more than a dozen world champions during his career, including Frank Bruno, Joe Calzaghe, Jim Watt, Maurice Hope, John &#8220;The Beast&#8221; Mugabi, Lloyd Honeyghan, Alan Minter, John Conteh, Terry Downes and Cornelius Boza Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a great guy and a real good man,&#8221; said Banner Promotions owner Artie Pelullo, who knew Duff for 30 years. &#8220;If he gave you his word you could go to the bank on it. I did a lot of deals with Mickey and [he] always treated me like a gentleman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Duff, one of England&#8217;s most famed promoters, managers and matchmakers, died on Saturday. He was 84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arthur-pelullo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7591,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions\/7591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}