If you had come to the Holy Trinity gym at Dulwich Hill, NSW on April 1, Palm Sunday, you would have witnessed a world record go into the Guinness Book. <\/p>\n
Father Dave ‘Fighting Padre’ Smith<\/strong> boxed 120 rounds (3min a round with 1min rest in between) to officially eclipse the former world record of 111 rounds in the USA. Fr. Dave took on all comers including world super-middleweight champion Anthony Mundine<\/strong>, heavyweight Sol Soumono, light-heavyweight Nader Hamdan, and world contenders Lovemore Nhou and Sol Egribine. <\/p>\n I did not box this time, but refereed the first two rounds, the final three rounds, and 40 rounds in between. <\/p>\n Funny, but I felt like a celebrity up there, being interviewed before the record attempt by Channel 7 and other television crews. Of course, those grabs on me would probably end up in the cutting room floor. But it was a memorable experience for me, especially when I was given the honour of refereeing the final three rounds to establish the new world record. There were only three referees from the Boxing Australia. I was the only one without an Australian ‘ticket’ but was invited as a former referee of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines.<\/p>\n The boxing rounds started at exactly 12 noon and finished at 8pm.<\/p>\n What a wonderful day it was for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you had come to the Holy Trinity gym at Dulwich Hill, NSW on April 1, Palm Sunday, you would have witnessed a world record go into the Guinness Book. Father Dave ‘Fighting Padre’ Smith boxed 120 rounds (3min a round with 1min rest in between) to officially eclipse the former world record of 111 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}