{"id":198591,"date":"2025-10-08T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198591\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:16:10","slug":"paul-hughes-lavey-fighter-says-he-didnt-do-enough-against-usman-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198591\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hughes: Lavey fighter says he &#8216;didn&#8217;t do enough&#8217; against Usman Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Addressing his supporters, the 28-year-old Lavey man has vowed there are &#8220;many good nights ahead of us&#8221; as he confirmed he will continue in his quest to reach the top, but will take some time out to rest after a hectic run of six fights in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following his January defeat to Nurmagomedov in their first fight, Hughes bounced back with a 42-second stoppage of Bruno Miranda in Belfast and he intends to use this latest disappointment to propel him &#8220;to new heights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This chapter is over now, but the next one is going to be even more special,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any adversity in my life has only propelled me to new heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Right now I need to take some forced time to let my body heal. When I come back healthy, it is my mission, to make sure that no lightweight on the planet comes close to beating me ever again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will be the undisputed number one 155er in the world within the next two years. Mark this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addressing his supporters, the 28-year-old Lavey man has vowed there are &#8220;many good nights ahead of us&#8221; as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-198591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198591","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=198591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}