{"id":5925,"date":"2012-04-13T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2012-04-13T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:56:29","slug":"chicago-golden-gloves-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5925","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Golden Gloves 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"But no worries, more Chicago Golden Gloves photos - by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/7072488671\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7196\/7072488671_1951cb6406_z.jpg\" alt=\"But no worries, more Chicago Golden Gloves photos -\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Chicago Golden Gloves Champion Kofi Bazzel-Smith (Open 141) - by bronder, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bronder\/7072539357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7049\/7072539357_216e50b9b9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Golden Gloves Champion Kofi Bazzel-Smith (Open 141) -\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast night I trekked out to Gordon Tech High School for this years&#8217; <a title=\"Wikipedia:  Golden Gloves\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Golden_Gloves\">Chicago Golden Gloves<\/a> tournament. By far the best fight I saw was in the 141-pound Open division between Kofi Bazzel-Smith and Kirk Billis. It was a lot more technically sound boxing than guys just openly swinging. Bazzel-Smith is in the photograph above with his championship belt.<\/p>\n<p>Side Notes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zuCHyla40dQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n* The video above was found at <a title=\"Chicaogside:  Still Swinging: The Chicago Golden Gloves\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagosidesports.com\/still-swinging-the-chicago-golden-gloves\/\">Chicagoside.com<\/a> which has a historical perspective on the Chicago Golden Gloves.<br \/>\n** The Chicago Golden Gloves no longer allows photography at their event.<br \/>\n*** Past Chicago Golden Gloves: <a title=\"Chicago Golden Gloves at St. Andrew's.\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=3435\">2009<\/a>, <a title=\"Chicago Golden Gloves Final\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=4176\">2010<\/a>, <a title=\"Chicago Golden Gloves\" href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=4920\">2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I trekked out to Gordon Tech High School for this years&#8217; Chicago Golden Gloves tournament. By far the best fight I saw was in the 141-pound Open division between Kofi Bazzel-Smith and Kirk Billis. It was a lot more technically sound boxing than guys just openly swinging. Bazzel-Smith is in the photograph above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-1xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5932,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}