{"id":668230,"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":"2026-10-04T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:44:15","slug":"sylvia-knows-why-his-dream-fight-against-sims-was-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668230","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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_mma_experts__17\/ept_sports_mma_experts-786326221-1266501220.jpg?w=780\" \/><\/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\">\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":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NPU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769764,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668230\/revisions\/769764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}