{"id":492,"date":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/snooker\/legend\/john-pulman\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:15:26","slug":"john-pulman","status":"publish","type":"legend","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/legend\/john-pulman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pulman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Herbert John Pulman<\/strong>&nbsp;(12 December 1923&nbsp;\u2013 25 December 1998) was an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player who was the&nbsp;World Snooker Champion&nbsp;from 1957 to 1968. He won the title at the&nbsp;1957 Championship, and retained it across seven challenges from 1964 to 1968, three of them against&nbsp;Fred Davis&nbsp;and two against&nbsp;Rex Williams. When the tournament reverted to a knockout event in&nbsp;1969&nbsp;he lost 18\u201325 in the first round to the eventual champion&nbsp;John Spencer, and he was runner-up to&nbsp;Ray Reardon&nbsp;in&nbsp;1970. He never reached the final again, although he was a losing semi-finalist in&nbsp;1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having won the&nbsp;English Amateur Championship&nbsp;in 1946, Pulman turned professional, and achieved three&nbsp;News of the World Snooker Tournament&nbsp;titles, in&nbsp;1954,&nbsp;1957, and&nbsp;1958. He became a television commentator towards the end of his playing career, and retired from competitive play in 1981 after breaking his leg in a traffic accident. He died in 1998 after a fall down stairs at his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":509,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-492","legend","type-legend","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legend"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/legend"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}