{"id":12789,"date":"2004-10-29T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2021-05-07T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:37:00","slug":"sylvester-stallone-back-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/29\/sylvester-stallone-back-in-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone Back in the Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">From the\u00a0<b>USA Weekend<\/b>\u00a0for\u00a0<b>October 29-31, 2004<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\"><b>Sylvester Stallone<\/b>\u00a0goes back to a\u00a0<b>boxing ring<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0<b>January <\/b>as\u00a0<b>host<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>co-producer<\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0<b>The Contender<\/b>, an <b>NBC<\/b> &#8220;reality&#8221; entry. The man who became a star as\u00a0<b>Rocky Balboa<\/b> offers potential\u00a0<b>Rocky<\/b>s a shot at\u00a0<b>fame and fortune<\/b>, but he promises his audience more than a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">&#8220;The fights will just be about five minutes,&#8221; says <b>Stallone<\/b>, 58. Co-Producer\u00a0<b>Mark Burnett\u00a0<\/b>says <b>Stallone<\/b> is right for the job because &#8220;he loves boxing and what it means to the fans.&#8221; He&#8217;s been cold at the box office, though, so it&#8217;s unlikely a planned\u00a0<b>Rocky VI\u00a0<\/b>will happen now.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"80%\" \/>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">&#8211;<b>\u00a0Craig Zablo<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0USA Weekend\u00a0for\u00a0October 29-31, 2004 Sylvester Stallone\u00a0goes back to a\u00a0boxing ring\u00a0in\u00a0January as\u00a0host\u00a0and\u00a0co-producer\u00a0of\u00a0The Contender, an NBC &#8220;reality&#8221; entry. The man who became a star as\u00a0Rocky Balboa offers potential\u00a0Rockys a shot at\u00a0fame and fortune, but he promises his audience more than a fight. &#8220;The fights will just be about five minutes,&#8221; says Stallone, 58. Co-Producer\u00a0Mark Burnett\u00a0says Stallone [&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":[45,79,91,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-rocky-6","category-the-contender","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3kh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","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=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12790,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions\/12790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}