{"id":31398,"date":"2020-05-11T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=31398"},"modified":"2020-05-11T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:47:57","slug":"victor-pei-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/victor-pei-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Pei dies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Victor Pei dies\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By Randy Gordon<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has taken more members of my boxing family.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, it was Jimmy Glenn, and now it&#8217;s that beloved businessman &amp; photographer Victor Pei passed. Victor was a man who believed in giving, not receiving.<\/p>\n<p>He gave far more of himself than he ever received or wanted to receive. Roni &amp; I looked forward to sharing a table with Victor &amp; his wife, Maria, at this September&#8217;s NY State Boxing Hall of Fame Awards.<\/p>\n<p>He went into Columbia Presbyterian Hospital three weeks ago &amp; never came out. He was 65. Victor, Jimmy Glenn is waiting for you. He&#8217;ll introduce you to Ali, Frazier &amp; all the fighters you always wanted to meet. I am going to paraphrase a line that Jimmy Cannon wrote about Joe Louis: Victor Pei was a credit to his race&#8230;the Human Race. The hearts of us in the boxing world in New York &amp; NJ are broken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pel2019\/i.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84976\" src=\"http:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pel2019\/i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"816\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Pei dies\u00a0 By Randy Gordon COVID-19 has taken more members of my boxing family. Thursday, it was Jimmy Glenn, and now it&#8217;s that beloved businessman<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}