{"id":155919,"date":"2025-09-20T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:12:11","slug":"veteran-boxer-naidu-returns-to-the-ring-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155919\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran boxer Naidu returns to the ring. \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ronald-naidu.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Veteran boxer Ronald Naidu is set to make his return to the ring for the first time this year at the FMF Blue Water Boxing Promotions next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Naidu, who hails from Nasau, Nadi, will face Sigatoka\u2019s Kaliova Tahikia in a 6\u00d73 contest in the light welterweight category.<\/p>\n<p>The bout is expected to draw a lot of attention, as Tahikia is the son of former boxing sensation Tevita Vakalalabure.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For the past five years, Naidu has been the defending light welterweight champion and is still awaiting a worthy opponent to challenge him.<\/p>\n<p>Naidu mentioned that he had hoped to fight Mikaele Ravalaca, but that bout did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he is still hopeful that a future fight against Ravalaca will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluewater Boxing event is scheduled for next Friday at Prince Charles Park in Nadi and will be available live via pay-per-view on viti.plus.<\/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":"Veteran boxer Ronald Naidu is set to make his return to the ring for the first time this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-155919","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\/155919","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=155919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}