{"id":171471,"date":"2025-09-26T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:31:11","slug":"police-stop-boxing-showdown-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171471\/","title":{"rendered":"Police stop boxing showdown \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bluewater-boxing-promotion-.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bluewater Boxing Promotion at Prince Charles Park, Nadi, was abruptly stopped last night after running past its scheduled time, leaving fans without the main bout.<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Samir Ali said organisers had booked the venue only until 11pm. When the fights extended beyond the permit, police moved in and halted the event at 11.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ali expressed frustration, saying similar events at the same venue had previously gone on until 1am. He apologised to fans and promised to make it up to them.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMany times before have event like this goes on until 1am, even at this same venue, but why we\u2019re we not allowed to continue. I apologise to all our fans and spectators, I will make it up to all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boxing Commission Chair Adi Narayan said four extra fights were added to the card at the last minute, which likely caused the delays.<\/p>\n<p>The early closure left both fighters and fans disappointed, as the headline contest never took place.<\/p>\n<p>FBC News has sought clarification from police on why the event was stopped after 11pm and we are awaiting a response.<\/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":"The Bluewater Boxing Promotion at Prince Charles Park, Nadi, was abruptly stopped last night after running past its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-171471","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\/171471","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=171471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}