{"id":149031,"date":"2025-09-17T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149031\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:29:12","slug":"narayan-hails-sameer-khans-key-role-in-boxing-growth-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149031\/","title":{"rendered":"Narayan hails Sameer Khan\u2019s key role in boxing growth \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/adi-narayan.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fiji Boxing Commission chair Adi Narayan has praised Bluewater Boxing promoter Mohammed Sameer Khan for his significant contribution to the sport\u2019s growth over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Narayan highlighted that Khan\u2019s consistent efforts have created more opportunities for local fighters, with a noticeable increase in the number of young boxers turning professional and competing under his promotions.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the introduction of more lucrative purses has helped elevate the standard of competition, resulting in higher-quality and more exciting bouts.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has done great work as far as professional boxing is concerned, he has developed a lot of young boxers and is paying them good money compared to four five years ago when boxers were receiving $100 per round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Narayan thanked Khan for his dedication and reaffirmed the Fiji Boxing Commission\u2019s full support for his ongoing efforts to develop the sport in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji Boxing Commission chair Adi Narayan has praised Bluewater Boxing promoter Mohammed Sameer Khan for his significant contribution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-149031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}