{"id":219397,"date":"2025-10-17T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219397\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:45:10","slug":"lee-trundle-ex-swansea-city-striker-swaps-football-for-boxing-in-charity-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219397\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Trundle: Ex-Swansea City striker swaps football for boxing in charity fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Swansea City striker Lee Trundle is swapping football for boxing in a white-collar charity fight in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49-year-old will fight former Tottenham Hotspur defender Anthony Gardner as one of five bouts on the Pro Project Promotions card, all between ex-footballers, as they try to raise \u00a3500,000 for life-changing charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trundle had two spells at Swansea, playing between 2003 and 2007 before returning in 2009 for one season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been training with Wales&#8217; former WBO cruiserweight world champion Enzo Maccarinelli at his gym in Bonymaen and invited BBC Sport Wales to one of his sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">*UK users only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Swansea City striker Lee Trundle is swapping football for boxing in a white-collar charity fight in London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-219397","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\/219397","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=219397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}