{"id":290685,"date":"2025-11-17T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290685\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:57:07","slug":"west-ham-united-mourns-mark-kaylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290685\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham United mourns Mark Kaylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaylor went on to forge a successful professional career, during which he sported Claret and Blue trunks in the ring and was duly backed by huge numbers of his fellow West Ham fans.<\/p>\n<p>He beat Roy Gumbs within five rounds to claim the British and Commonwealth titles in September 1983, and enjoyed a feisty rivalry with Errol Christie which culminated in a knockout-victory over his fellow Brit in November 1985.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Kaylor retired with a record of 40-7-1 (34 KOs), before moving to the USA and working as an aerobics instructor in California.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at West Ham United would like to express their sincere condolences to Mark\u2019s family and friends at this sad time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaylor went on to forge a successful professional career, during which he sported Claret and Blue trunks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290685","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\/290685","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=290685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}