{"id":10810,"date":"2006-08-11T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:58:18","slug":"the-contender-is-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/11\/the-contender-is-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Contender&#8221; is a Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>    <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Larry Stewart<\/strong>, in his <strong>August 11, 2006<\/strong> column for the <strong>LA Times. com<\/strong> says that <strong>The Contender<\/strong> has <br>become a winner! Here are some excerpts:<br>* &#8220;Boxing is in a slump&#8230; <br>* &#8220;There is one boxing format, however,  that is suddenly showing signs of success \u2014<strong> &#8220;The Contender.&#8221;<\/strong>          * The reality series has been revamped from its first season on<strong> NBC<\/strong> and is now on <strong>ESPN Tuesday<\/strong> nights at <strong>7<\/strong>.&#8221;       <br>* &#8220;Through four weeks, it is averaging a <strong>1.2 rating <\/strong>and each show is reaching an average of<strong> 1.1 million<\/strong>          homes. That represents a<strong> 33% increase<\/strong> for the same time slot last  year.&#8221;      <br>* &#8220;<strong>ESPN<\/strong> is the perfect home for the show,&#8221; said <strong>Jeffrey Katzenberg<\/strong>, co-founder of <strong>DreamWorks <\/strong>and <br>one of the creators of<strong> &#8220;The Contender.&#8221;<\/strong>       <br>* &#8220;The lead producer is <strong>Mark Burnett<\/strong>, creator of the <strong>&#8220;Survivor&#8221;<\/strong> series. Last year <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> and <strong>Sugar Ray Leonard<\/strong> were co-hosts, but <strong>Stallone<\/strong> is now busy filming another <strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> movie, leaving <br><strong>Leonard<\/strong> as the lone host.&#8221;      <br>* &#8220;The series started <strong>four weeks  ago<\/strong> with <strong>16 fighters<\/strong> and is now down to <strong>12<\/strong>. Each show provides an<br>inside look at the fighters and their families and friends and concludes with a <strong>five-round fight<\/strong>. The <br>losers go home until only two are left. The <strong>live finale<\/strong> will take place <strong>Sept. 26<\/strong> at the <strong>Staples Center<\/strong>, with the winner getting <strong>$500,000<\/strong>.&#8221;       <br>* &#8220;The boxers, culled from a nationwide search, are all professionals with winning records, and all in the 148-pound weight class.&#8221;                     <br><br>For <strong>Larry Stewart&#8217;s<\/strong> full article click  <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-tvcol11aug11,1,5056566.column\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>          &#8211; Craig<\/strong>                 \u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Stewart, in his August 11, 2006 column for the LA Times. com says that The Contender has become a winner! Here are some excerpts:* &#8220;Boxing is in a slump&#8230; * &#8220;There is one boxing format, however, that is suddenly showing signs of success \u2014 &#8220;The Contender.&#8221; * The reality series has been revamped from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,91,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-the-contender","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2Om","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10811,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}