{"id":9973,"date":"2015-10-01T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:41:42","slug":"john-apollo-kidd-thompson-arrives-in-manchester-england-for-october-10th-wbo-junior-middleweight-world-title-fight-with-liam-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/?p=9973","title":{"rendered":"John &#8220;Apollo Kidd&#8221; Thompson arrives in Manchester, England for October 10th WBO Junior Middleweight world title fight with Liam Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester, England (October 1, 2015)&#8211;WBO number-five ranked junior middleweight contender &#038; Boxcino 2015 champion, John &#8220;Apollo Kidd&#8221; Thompson arrived Thursday morning in Manchester, England in advance of his October 10th WBO junior middleweight world title clash with Liam Smith that will take place at the Manchester Arena. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson of Newark, New Jersey, is promoted by GH3 Promotions and Banner Promotions, is excited for the opportunity to become world champion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Team-Thompson-1024x768.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Team-Thompson-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Team Thompson (1024x768)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Team-Thompson-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Team-Thompson-1024x768-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Team-Thompson-1024x768-893x670.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am glad to be here, but I have a job to do and on October 10.  That night I will become world champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit:  Marc Abrams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester, England (October 1, 2015)&#8211;WBO number-five ranked junior middleweight contender &#038; Boxcino 2015 champion, John &#8220;Apollo Kidd&#8221; Thompson arrived Thursday morning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,225,8],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fights","category-news","tag-john-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","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=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9977,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions\/9977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banner-promotions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}