{"id":334860,"date":"2010-02-18T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-220504:1"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:45:37","slug":"sylvia-knows-why-his-dream-fight-against-sims-was-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334860","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia knows why his &quot;dream fight&quot; against Sims was denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It gets worse for Tim Sylvia. Or maybe he just got a great break. Sylvia&#8217;s proposed fight against Wes Sims has been turned down by the commission in Ohio. The reason? Sylvia explained via Twitter. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-786326221-1266501220.jpg?ymkptsCDicSDSHrO\" \/><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s it? Did the commission really say Sims &quot;sucks?&quot; Probably not. But we get the point. Sylvia has had a tough time finding fights since his eight second destruction at the hands of 48-year-old Ray Mercer. Would a win over Sims be a way to get his career on track or simply more material for his detractors to use in mocking him? Frankly, Sims doesn&#8217;t deserve another payday after the way he acted following his loss to Bobby Lashley at Strikeforce: Miami. Sims called Lashley, a &quot;juiced-up monkey.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OiYEJOlpXRM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It gets worse for Tim Sylvia. Or maybe he just got a great break. Sylvia&#8217;s proposed fight against Wes Sims has been turned down by the commission in Ohio. The reason? Sylvia explained via Twitter. That&#8217;s it? Did the commission really say Sims &quot;sucks?&quot; Probably not. But we get the point. Sylvia has had a [&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-334860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334860","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=334860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}