{"id":29517,"date":"2016-10-18T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2016-12-02T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:17:00","slug":"la-crew-highlights-the-ufc-for-hbo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2016\/la-crew-highlights-the-ufc-for-hbo-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Crew Highlights the UFC for HBO Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25152 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/12192401\/HBO-Sports-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hbo-sports-3\" width=\"476\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">1&#8230;2&#8230;3\u2026 Our LA crew got in the ring with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlimasBoxing\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlimasBoxing&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1476456052944000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHpRJxULcJ3fQEjvP4NvY4Li263UA\">Egis Klimas<\/a>, manager for some of the world\u2019s best boxers, for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBO\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/HBO&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1476456052944000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE7-yo4wlqxz6qzdwpcef-jMZEPrA\">HBO<\/a> Sports\u2019 The Fight Game with Jim Lampley.<\/p>\n<p>We filmed a sit-down interview with Klimas and sportscaster <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melissastark\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/melissastark&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1476456052944000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVVoN8uNLbfbpDCCbK3aTxmBSC8w\">Melissa Stark<\/a>. Klimas mentors and manages IBF\/WBO\/WBA light heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KrusherKovalev\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/KrusherKovalev&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1476456052944000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPxJR8NwU4u_W09-P9EvP4w7hlEg\">Sergey \u201cKrusher\u201d Kovalev<\/a>, WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko and IBF featherweight champion Evgeny Gradovich. We also got some serious #gymspiration filming an interview with Klimas and Kovalev together at the boxing gym.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25153 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/12192401\/HBO-Sports-2-e1476375248927-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"hbo-sports-2\" width=\"341\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It might surprise you that Klimas was never a boxer himself! When talking about Kovalev, Klimas said: \u201cHe always comes into the ring angry and ready to kick ass. I\u2019ve never seen anyone but him do that on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For the full episode check out The Fight Game on HBO.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25154 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/12192400\/HBO-Sports-4-e1476375316835-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"hbo-sports-4\" width=\"339\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gear: Two Man Crew, C300, audio op, basic lighting kit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1&#8230;2&#8230;3\u2026 Our LA crew got in the ring with Egis Klimas, manager for some of the world\u2019s best boxers, for HBO Sports\u2019 The Fight Game with Jim Lampley. We filmed a sit-down interview with Klimas and sportscaster Melissa Stark. Klimas mentors and manages IBF\/WBO\/WBA light heavyweight champion Sergey \u201cKrusher\u201d Kovalev, WBO featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":29651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,140],"tags":[3030,2755,3229,142,313,3051,3230,3052,3231,35,3232,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}