{"id":249558,"date":"2026-04-28T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:53:08","slug":"bear-wrestling-at-bars-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249558\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear wrestling at bars in the \u201980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 8:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>Yes \u2014 this was a real night out in the \u201980s. Crowds packed bars like Summer\u2019s on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale to watch live bear wrestling! It didn\u2019t last though. Growing outrage, animal cruelty crackdowns and tougher laws shut it down, ending one of Florida\u2019s wildest eras. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yes \u2014 this was a real night out in the \u201980s. Crowds packed bars like Summer\u2019s on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale to watch live bear wrestling! It didn\u2019t last though. Growing outrage, animal cruelty crackdowns and tougher laws shut it down, ending one of Florida\u2019s wildest eras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 28, 2026 at 8:29 AM Yes \u2014 this was a real night out in the \u201980s. Crowds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-249558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}