{"id":155610,"date":"2025-09-19T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155610\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:28:07","slug":"joseph-parker-fabio-wardleys-next-fight-is-on-ppv-is-it-worth-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155610\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker &#038; Fabio Wardley&#8217;s Next Fight is on PPV. Is it Worth the Price?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">If there was any mystery regarding Tom Gerbasi it had to do with how he could spend so much time in the fight world and yet remain so upbeat and full of joy. Rather than dissuade new writers, or steer them towards healthier pursuits, his instinct was to welcome them, encourage them and nurture them. He frequented a world of sharks and scumbags but somehow retained a purity and youthful enthusiasm I both admired and to an extent envied \u2013 never more so than of late. Even his writing felt like a hug. It was genial, heartfelt, tight. Tom, for example, would have never thought to use an uplifting film about the deaf community as an analogy in a column about a heavyweight boxing match on pay-per-view. He would have instead just shrugged his shoulders, then laughed at the ridiculousness of whatever it was I was fretting about. He would have said, \u201cJust do the work. Don\u2019t take things so seriously.\u201d His reference would have been a different film: Chinatown, perhaps. \u201cForget it, Elliot, it\u2019s boxing,\u201d he might have said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was any mystery regarding Tom Gerbasi it had to do with how he could spend so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,81762,20876,5384,82,80168,81763],"class_list":["post-155610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fabio-wardley","tag-joseph-parker","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-sports","tag-thomas-gerbasi","tag-tom-gerbais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}