{"id":3136,"date":"2010-10-31T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2010-10-31T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:16:41","slug":"the-contender-one-of-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/the-contender-one-of-the-best-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contender One of the Best Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2010\/oct\/103110contender.png?resize=475%2C265\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Bleacher Report<\/strong><\/a> posted their choices for the <strong>The Best 50 Sports Shows of All Time<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em><strong>The Contender<\/strong><\/em> came in at <strong># 44<\/strong> and here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-description\">\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Contender<\/strong><\/em> was the brainchild of <strong>Mark Burnett <\/strong>of <em><strong>Survivor <\/strong><\/em> fame, and was originally hosted by <strong>Sugar Ray Leonard <\/strong>and<strong> Sylvester  Stallone<\/strong> The show featured a bunch of amateur boxers trying to make it big. It  was just a fun watch to see what it takes to make someone into a  professional boxer.\u00a0 The desperation some of these guys had was palpable, and it made it that much more entertaining to watch.\u00a0 It eventually fizzled out, but I enjoyed the first season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide-description\">You can <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/503430-the-50-best-sports-tv-shows-of-all-time#page\/8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>see the full list here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"slide-description\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bleacher Report posted their choices for the The Best 50 Sports Shows of All Time.\u00a0 The Contender came in at # 44 and here&#8217;s why&#8230; The Contender was the brainchild of Mark Burnett of Survivor fame, and was originally hosted by Sugar Ray Leonard and Sylvester Stallone The show featured a bunch of amateur [&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":[85,28,91,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors","category-the-contender","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-OA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","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=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}