{"id":301871,"date":"2025-11-22T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:34:07","slug":"the-rise-and-appeal-of-bareknuckle-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301871\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise and appeal of bareknuckle boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cFor me, it was more of a, why not? Give it a go, it looks fun, and it\u2019s still fighting in probably the purest essence of it,\u201d said the big Australian. \u201cI thought, give it a go, see what happens, and here we are. A million percent [there\u2019s a] difference [with boxing], because it\u2019s real. That\u2019s the best way to describe it, it\u2019s actually a real fight. I had my bareknuckle, I went to the UK, right? So I spent quite a few weeks in the UK. I had an exhibition bout, which was fun. I then got linked up with the BKB, so I\u2019ve had the bareknuckle fight, and for the first time in many years, I had that anxious anxiety. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019d call it, like I was just almost scared, I suppose, like I was just like, \u2018Shit, this is real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor me, it was more of a, why not? Give it a go, it looks fun, and it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,172474,40504,802,53144,1920,6653,127185,16966,85],"class_list":["post-301871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bareknuckle","tag-bareknuckle-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-talk","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-lucas-browne","tag-paulie-malignaggi","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301871","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=301871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}