{"id":1092,"date":"2018-06-05T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T23:23:02","slug":"tmx-championship-preview-with-hunter-mcintyre-and-beni-gifford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/tmx-championship-preview-with-hunter-mcintyre-and-beni-gifford\/","title":{"rendered":"TMX Championship Preview with Hunter McIntyre and Beni Gifford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hunter-McIntyrye-and-Beni-Gifford.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter-McIntyrye-and-Beni-Gifford\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hunter-McIntyrye-and-Beni-Gifford.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.naturalrunningnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Hunter-McIntyrye-and-Beni-Gifford-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>You couldn&#8217;t make this up if you wanted to!\u00a0 Aside from <strong>Hunter McIntyre<\/strong> being the reigning TMX Champ and crowd favorite for the upcoming <strong>TMX Championship<\/strong> on June 8th 2018. 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