{"id":14436,"date":"2003-12-15T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/hockey-gladiators\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T16:13:00","slug":"hockey-gladiators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/hockey-gladiators\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Gladiators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;No nets, no faceoffs, no goals &ndash; and definitely no gloves.&rdquo; The <i>Winnipeg Sun<\/i> reports that &ldquo;promoter Darryl Wolski is banking on to sell his unusual idea of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/WinnipegSun\/News\/2003\/12\/14\/286512.html\" target=\"_blank\">pay-per-view hockey fighting tournament<\/a> to the sporting public.&rdquo;  Wolski &ldquo;plans to round up between 50 and 100 pugilists, who will each pay an entry fee between $200 and $250 to participate in the <i>Hockey Gladiators<\/i> show. A large, two-tiered tournament schedule will then be set up, with fighters given two chances to make it to the final round. The brawls will last between one and two minutes and a panel of judges will designate the winners. In the end, the master enforcer will take home $50,000.&rdquo;  I certainly believe that hockey wouldn&rsquo;t be hockey without an occasional fight, but I think this is a bit too much&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107150480156098550?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;No nets, no faceoffs, no goals &ndash; and definitely no gloves.&rdquo; The Winnipeg Sun reports that &ldquo;promoter Darryl Wolski is banking on to sell his unusual idea of a pay-per-view hockey fighting tournament to the sporting public.&rdquo; Wolski &ldquo;plans to round up between 50 and 100 pugilists, who will each pay an entry fee between &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/hockey-gladiators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hockey Gladiators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}