{"id":323622,"date":"2010-02-15T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-219822:1"},"modified":"2010-02-15T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:15:03","slug":"injury-postpones-coward-vs-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323622","title":{"rendered":"Injury postpones &#8216;Coward&#8217; vs. &#8216;Crumble&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a bummer. John Howard and Anthony Johnson were on pace for an epic battle in and out of the cage on March 21. &quot;Coward&quot; as he was dubbed by &quot;Crumble&quot; Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchkalibrun.com\/2010\/2\/14\/1310232\/down-goes-anthony-johnson\" >will now face UFC newcomer Daniel Roberts<\/a>, as the promotion makes its Versus debut with a free show from Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Howard and Johnson were going at it during interviews and on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook. Right before UFC 109 in Las Vegas, they were even close to coming to blows at the credential desk.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I saw him in the back room and we almost got into it,&quot; Howard told DC and The Sunshine Man on <a href=\"http:\/\/werlv.com\/pages\/1695783.php\" >ESPNRadio1100<\/a>. &quot;They had to separate us. The beef is real, man. I was pumped up. I was ready.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CB65NB5IMS0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Howard said the near brawl was started when the fighters simply stared at each other. Since the cancellation, Howard has been gracious. Johnson was as well on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting to hear that Howard trains a bit with Boston Celtic Glen &quot;Big Baby&quot; Davis (3:50 mark). Howard said the NBA power forward is pretty nimble. Imagine the 6-foot-8, 285-pound Davis in MMA? The day is coming when you&#8217;ll see NBA-type athletes entering cages. At that point, good luck to the Cabbage Correiras of the MMA world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a bummer. John Howard and Anthony Johnson were on pace for an epic battle in and out of the cage on March 21. &quot;Coward&quot; as he was dubbed by &quot;Crumble&quot; Johnson will now face UFC newcomer Daniel Roberts, as the promotion makes its Versus debut with a free show from Denver. Howard and Johnson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}