{"id":247400,"date":"2025-10-28T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247400\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:45:07","slug":"the-79-year-old-boxer-who-became-an-unlikely-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247400\/","title":{"rendered":"The 79-year-old boxer who became an unlikely star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He needed a career so he gave up boxing and took up a job as trainee journalist at the Arbroath Guide newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A long career in sports journalism followed, including working for ITV&#8217;s Grampian TV, where the closest he got to a fight was with Sir Alex Ferguson, the notoriously hot-headed manager for Aberdeen in the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was not until decades later, when he was in his late 50s, that Frank, by then a father-of-four, started working out again at his local boxing gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought &#8216;I&#8217;ll go to the gym and keep with it&#8217;,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt guilty that I wasn&#8217;t doing anything in terms of physical exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frank spent the next 15 years consistently working out and staying fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I worked out three times a week, full session, the same as everyone else. I loved it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then three years ago the uppercut video went viral and his hundreds of followers soon became tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;TikTok was like a wildfire,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Soon we were at 50,000 followers and then 70,000 and I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;this is crazy&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He needed a career so he gave up boxing and took up a job as trainee journalist at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247400","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\/247400","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=247400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}