{"id":537657,"date":"2026-03-13T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:27:07","slug":"boxing-legend-ray-boom-boom-mancini-visits-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537657\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Ray \u201cBoom-Boom\u201d Mancini visits the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A boxing legend is visiting the north country this weekend for a big weekend of boxing action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Battle of the Badges will be taking place on Saturday night at the McVean Athletic Center gym with former WBA lightweight champ Ray \u201cBoom-Boom\u201d Mancini in attendance as a special guest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Friday night at 7 PM, thanks to the Watertown Boxing Club and John Pepe, Mancini will take time out of his schedule to be the guest speaker at the IHC Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event will be free to anyone who wants to attend and will allow those in attendance to learn a little bit about the Hall of Fame boxer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A boxing legend is visiting the north country this weekend for a big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-537657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}