{"id":248615,"date":"2025-10-29T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:12:07","slug":"troy-jones-is-a-fighting-man-just-dont-ask-him-to-make-flat-packed-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248615\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Jones is a fighting man, just don\u2019t ask him to make flat-packed furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cWe trained in his gym since maybe January, February,\u201d said Jones. \u201cI met Ricky, most weeks he was in the gym. What a guy, mate. He\u2019s great. If you didn&#8217;t know who he was, you\u2019d just think he was just a normal down-to-earth fella. He&#8217;d come in the gym, have a crack, have a laugh. At first, you\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Ricky.\u2019 But then he\u2019s just a normal guy, mate. And a real legend he was. So he leaves a big hole in the boxing world and with anyone else that he met as well, which is a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe trained in his gym since maybe January, February,\u201d said Jones. \u201cI met Ricky, most weeks he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248615","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\/248615","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=248615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}