{"id":335564,"date":"2025-12-09T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335564\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:25:09","slug":"montell-griffin-receives-honorary-recognition-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335564\/","title":{"rendered":"Montell Griffin receives honorary recognition in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montell Griffin receives honorary recognition in Chicago<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Former world champion Montell Griffin was presented with an Honorary Resolution by 25th District Alderman Lopez during an event held at the MK Tells Gym in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The recognition celebrates his career, his contributions to the community, and his legacy as one of the most respected figures in American boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Griffin became the WBC light heavyweight world champion after defeating Roy Jones Jr. in March of 1997. The American boxer also held the WBC Continental Americas light heavyweight title on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Montell \u201cIce\u201d Griffin retired from boxing in 2011 with a record of 50-8-1, including 30 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Griffin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\"  \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Griffin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"640\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_171849\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"171849\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montell Griffin receives honorary recognition in Chicago \u00a0Former world champion Montell Griffin was presented with an Honorary Resolution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335564","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\/335564","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=335564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}