{"id":311097,"date":"2025-11-27T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311097\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:03:07","slug":"road-warrior-maxi-hughes-happy-to-face-another-unbeaten-foe-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311097\/","title":{"rendered":"Road warrior Maxi Hughes happy to face another unbeaten foe in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">\u201cI was actually in Dubai during COVID and I fought the unbeaten [12-0] Kazakhstan [fighter] Viktor Kotochigov, who again was a decent amateur \u2013 unbeaten as a pro,\u201d Hughes said. \u201cAnd at that time, five years ago, I had more experience and I used it and I got the win. So I&#8217;ve just sort of got to repeat what I did there. I quite enjoy fighting away. I have fought there before, and they&#8217;re sending me out next Friday. So I&#8217;m going to be there in plenty of time. I know that the time difference is not that bad \u2013 three to four hours. So it&#8217;s not going to wreak hell with my body clock. I quite enjoy it. I remember before I&#8217;d ever fought abroad, watching on telly people like Kiko [Martinez], or I looked up to [former light heavyweight titleholder] Glen Johnson, \u2018The Road Warrior.\u2019 I thought, \u2018I quite like that.\u2019 You know, just travelling around, getting paid to travel around the world and fight. I&#8217;ve got to experience a bit of that myself and I quite enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was actually in Dubai during COVID and I fought the unbeaten [12-0] Kazakhstan [fighter] Viktor Kotochigov, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,176276,802,176277,176275,85,176278],"class_list":["post-311097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bakhodur-usmonov","tag-boxing","tag-george-kambosos","tag-maxi-hughes","tag-sports","tag-william-zepeda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311097","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=311097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}