{"id":5060,"date":"2017-02-08T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:04:53","slug":"dispatches-sports-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/dispatches-sports-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from the sports desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By:Burke De Boer\r\nSports Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The Korean Zombie earned a first round knockout of ninth-ranked Dennis Bermudez in his return bout.<\/p>\n<p>Bermudez opened the Feb. 4 fight with strong blows, but found the inevitable lurch of Chan Sung Jung to be inescapable.<\/p>\n<p>A bear of an uppercut took Bermudez to the ground. Jung was on him, delivering hits, when the fight was called.<\/p>\n<p>Knockout. 2:49 in the first.<\/p>\n<p>Probably a bit of an early stoppage, all things considered. But the bell was rung and what\u2019s done was done.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a fan of The Korean Zombie since I first found out there was a fighter with the nickname \u201cThe Korean Zombie.\u201d A few years ago, he was one of the most exciting, rope-a-dope fighters out there.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing theme across fight media is \u201cThe Korean Zombie is back!\u201d He didn\u2019t have as much as ring rust as many predicted and he picked up a win in his classic style.<\/p>\n<p>Belal Muhammad tweeted, \u201cThere was three years of anger in that uppercut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t be this surprised.<\/p>\n<p>We may remember that he missed his fights in 2014 following a shoulder injury he suffered in his championship fight. But he\u2019s not returning from that injury. He\u2019s back from serving mandatory time in the South Korean Military.<\/p>\n<p>That time serving not only gave him time to heal, but it was time spent keeping him fighting fit.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea raises one of Asia\u2019s strongest militaries. And in the case of Chan Sung Jung, one of the world\u2019s toughest fighters. The soldier\u2019s return has put his division on notice.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journalsports@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:Burke De Boer Sports Editor The Korean Zombie earned a first round knockout of ninth-ranked Dennis Bermudez in his return bout. Bermudez opened the Feb. 4 fight with strong blows, but found the inevitable lurch of Chan Sung Jung to be inescapable. A bear of an uppercut took Bermudez to the ground. Jung was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}