{"id":13114,"date":"2015-07-28T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13114"},"modified":"2015-07-26T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T17:50:40","slug":"the-forgotten-story-of-wyatt-earp-and-the-fixed-heavyweight-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13114","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Story of Wyatt Earp and the Fixed Heavyweight Title Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z072815wyattearp_fixedboxing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When most people hear the name <strong>Wyatt Earp<\/strong> they think of the brave lawman who participated in the gunfight at the <strong>OK Corral<\/strong>. &nbsp;You know the hero of countless movies, books, and tv shows. &nbsp;Historians may have a slightly more tarnished image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did you know that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;At the start of the 20th century, most people did not see Earp as a demigod of frontier justice, but rather as a dirty referee who fixed the heavyweight championship, running away before many in the crowd realized what had happened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click over to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong> and read <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2015\/jul\/22\/wyatt-earp-botched-heavyweight-boxing-championship\" target=\"_blank\">The Forgotten Story of Wyatt Earp and the Fixed Heavyweight Title Fight<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by <strong>Les Carpenter<\/strong>. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll never see <strong>Wyatt Earp<\/strong> in quite the same light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people hear the name Wyatt Earp they think of the brave lawman who participated in the gunfight at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-history","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13115,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions\/13115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}