{"id":229513,"date":"2025-10-21T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229513\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:39:11","slug":"we-are-doing-a-boxing-show-in-ghana-boxing-promoter-eddie-hearn-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229513\/","title":{"rendered":"We are doing a Boxing Show in Ghana- Boxing Promoter Eddie Hearn confirms\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matchroom Sport Chairman and renowned boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has stated that the boxing promotional outfit will hold a show in Accra, Ghana at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The boxing event which is set to act as a potential precursor to an Anthony Joshua fight in the same city in February next year, is scheduled to take place in December 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ring Magazine, Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith was in Ghana in August to engage stakeholders regarding the upcoming event and was impressed with what he saw and this has obviously played a role in Hearn confirming the boxing event in December in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing a show in Ghana on December 20th. Obviously this will not be an AJ [Anthony Joshua] show but it\u2019s still going to be a good show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-606131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1000470955-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\"  \/>British Heavyweight Boxer Anthony Joshua<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is that this is probably a precursor for an AJ show out there but it\u2019s not part of our initial deal. We can just get the lay of the land with this one\u201d Hearn said to Ring Magazine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-606137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1000470964-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"  \/>Anthony Joshua (left) with Ghana President John Mahama<\/p>\n<p>Hearn is a long time promoter of former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Joshua visited Ghana recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom Sport Chairman and renowned boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has stated that the boxing promotional outfit will hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-229513","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\/229513","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=229513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}