{"id":66339,"date":"2015-03-02T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66339"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:15:21","slug":"college-to-host-hills-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=66339","title":{"rendered":"Hill: fight as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Hall of fame boxer Virgil Hill says his final fight was everything he expected \u2013 and more.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The five-time world champion from North Dakota beat Jimmy Campbell with a TKO in the second round on Saturday night at the Bismarck Event Center.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hill tells The Bismarck Tribune that he feels blessed to end his career in front of a boisterous crowd at the venue where he fought many bouts throughout his career. He never lost there.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 51-year-old Hill won an Olympic silver medal in 1984 and went on to win 50 of 57 fights as a professional in different weight classes. He earned five world titles and made 20 successful title defenses. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/p>\n

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – United Tribes Technical College is hosting the weigh-in for boxer Virgil Hill’s last fight.<\/p>\n

The five-time world champion from North Dakota is squaring off against Jimmy Campbell on Saturday at the Bismarck Event Center. The weigh-in for that bout and others on the card will be Friday at the college gymnasium. The event begins at 5 p.m. with weigh-ins commencing at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old Hill says it will be his final fight. Hill won an Olympic silver medal in 1984 and went on to win 50 of 57 fights as a professional in different weight classes. He earned five world titles and made 20 successful title defenses. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Hall of fame boxer Virgil Hill says his final fight was everything he expected \u2013 and more. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The five-time world champion from North Dakota beat Jimmy Campbell with a TKO in the second round on Saturday night at the Bismarck Event Center. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66349,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions\/66349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}