{"id":628741,"date":"2026-04-25T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:58:09","slug":"bill-caplan-was-one-of-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628741\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Caplan was \u2018one of the good guys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cWe always stayed in touch and called each other. He was a good guy. He was one of the great publicists, and he was loyal to George like there was no tomorrow. Let me tell you about George, before George got his ass beat [stopped by Ali in Africa], he treated everybody like shit. When Ali beat him, he became humble and he became nice and that\u2019s why it got the grill deal, once he started telling people what they wanted to hear.\u201d<br \/>Caplan was involved every step of the way with Foreman, including through his reinvention, but Kilroy has fond memories of the famous Rumble as much as anything else in his decorated career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe always stayed in touch and called each other. He was a good guy. He was one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[235550,703,711,710,49,48,235549,12613,1605,82],"class_list":["post-628741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bill-caplan","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gene-kilroy","tag-george-foreman","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628741","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=628741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}