{"id":153728,"date":"2025-09-19T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153728\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:59:11","slug":"hong-kong-boxer-pradhan-ready-for-encounter-on-bigger-stage-wants-fight-at-kai-tak-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153728\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong boxer Pradhan ready for encounter on bigger stage, wants fight at Kai Tak next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong boxer Saagar Pradhan said fighting in the city gave him extra strength as he prepared to defend his WBO youth title next month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 24-year-old will battle Gaurav Bisht for the WBO Youth APAC super welterweight belt at the 2,000-seat Southorn Stadium on October 10, part of a double header that includes a bout between Scottish fighter Colin Cairney and India\u2019s Trijot Singh Bawa for the vacant WBO Youth International welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking to the Post on Thursday ahead of the fight, Pradhan said he believed in home advantage because it made him \u201cfeel stronger\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMy parents are going to watch,\u201d he said. \u201cYou got your people around you, supporting you. My friends, my family, they\u2019re all here.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey\u2019re cheering for you, and the atmosphere is different \u2026 from your hometown, that\u2019s why I like fighting [in Hong Kong] more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saagar Pradhan would love to fight at Kai Tak Sports Park. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/00c944a6-5b92-4346-88be-edb0a7c2eb94_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Saagar Pradhan would love to fight at Kai Tak Sports Park. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>Saagar Pradhan would love to fight at Kai Tak Sports Park. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Born and raised in the city to Nepalese parents, it will be Pradhan\u2019s first home fight since he knocked out Passakron Yakkala in just 90 seconds last September at PMQ Qube in Sheung Wan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong boxer Saagar Pradhan said fighting in the city gave him extra strength as he prepared to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,102811,102801,10340,54593,102804,102800,102810,13433,54589,85,8943,102809,102808,102805,8941,102803,102806,102807,9995,102802],"class_list":["post-153728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-colin-cairney","tag-gaurav-bisht","tag-hong-kong","tag-kai-tak-sports-park","tag-pmq-qube","tag-saagar-pradhan","tag-scottish","tag-shenzhen","tag-southorn-stadium","tag-sports","tag-super-welterweight","tag-the-encounter","tag-trijot-singh-bawa","tag-verano-boxing-club","tag-wbo","tag-wbo-asia-pacific-youth-super-welter","tag-wbo-asia-pacific","tag-wbo-youth-apac-super-welterweight-belt","tag-welterweight","tag-world-boxing-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153728","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=153728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}