{"id":177013,"date":"2025-09-29T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:26:09","slug":"former-professional-boxer-niall-kennedy-opens-up-about-his-struggles-with-anxiety-during-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177013\/","title":{"rendered":"Former professional boxer Niall Kennedy opens up about his struggles with anxiety during his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall Kennedy, former professional boxer opens up about his struggles with performance anxiety. Photo: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/96ab57f1-1cb7-42bc-af5e-43b985c6f944.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Niall Kennedy, former professional boxer opens up about his struggles with performance anxiety. Photo: Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A former professional boxer from Wexford has highlighted the impact of performance anxiety on his career after he teamed up with a local therapist to host a talk on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Niall Kennedy, former professional boxer from Gorey said he felt he couldn\u2019t enjoy the journey he had been on in his career, due to the stress of performance anxiety, and his fear of failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall Kennedy, former professional boxer opens up about his struggles with performance anxiety. Photo: Patrick Browne A former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[96928,64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-177013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177013","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=177013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}