{"id":254141,"date":"2025-11-01T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254141\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:20:14","slug":"former-middleweight-contender-steve-darnell-passes-november-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254141\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Middleweight Contender Steve Darnell Passes \u00bb November 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Darnell.jpg\" alt=\"Darnell\" width=\"366\" height=\"331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176274\"  \/>Photo Courtesy Of Darnell Family<\/p>\n<p>By Henry Hascup<\/p>\n<p>Popular, charismatic Detroit-area-based middleweight Steve \u201cStevie D\u201d Darnell passed away peacefully on October 25, 2025, in Brighton, Michigan, at age 61.  He is survived by two daughters. Compiling a record of 26-5-2 (15 KOs) between 1984 and 1993, the apex of his career was challenging for the USBA Super Middleweight title on May 9, 1988, against Lindell Holmes (TKO2).  Other standout opponents include Charles Brewer (LTKO2), Antoine Byrd (LTKO9), and Kevin Watts (L10).  Instead of flowers, memorial contributions in Steve\u2019s honor are suggested for Boston University\u2019s Research Center for the Study of CTE.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   <a href=\"https:\/\/fightnews.com\/andrew-moloney-returns-in-fiji\/176281\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Moloney Returns In Fiji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        PLEASE READ<br \/>We have a few rules to make our comment section more enjoyable for everyone.<br \/>1. Keep comments related to boxing.<br \/>2. Be respectful, polite and keep it clean.<br \/>3. Personal attacks will not be tolerated.<br \/>Offending posts will be removed.<br \/>Repeat offenders will be put on moderation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Courtesy Of Darnell Family By Henry Hascup Popular, charismatic Detroit-area-based middleweight Steve \u201cStevie D\u201d Darnell passed away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-254141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254141","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=254141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}