{"id":312160,"date":"2025-11-27T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312160\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:34:11","slug":"clarke-vs-tkv-press-conference-live-updates-and-reaction-from-heavyweight-media-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/312160\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke vs TKV press conference LIVE: Updates and reaction from heavyweight media event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hennessy chief supportpublished at 12:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:08 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Hennessy v Bytyqi<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francesca Hennessy in the ring in an all white outfit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a64f441f-3109-4369-b85b-d741677bb563.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent fighter Francesca Hennessy is the co-main event and will take on Czech Fabiana Bytyqi in a ten round bantamweight bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is quite the gap in expereince between the pair, but Hennessy &#8211; daughter of British promoter Mick Hennessy &#8211; has already been earmarked as a future world title contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Woman&#8217;s Hour last week, Hennessy says her father actually never expected her to box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was 13 when she had her first amateur fight, a contest she lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very overweight when I was younger,&#8221; Hennessy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I kind of got in it for fitness. In my head it was always I wanted to box, but in my parents&#8217; head it was just healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But boxing gave me so much confidence within that &#8217;cause I was quite insecure because of my weight and things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s changed my whole outlook. When I was younger and things, I just wasn&#8217;t as confident in myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Francesca Hennessy v Fabiana Bytyqi in numbers.  Longest winning streak - 6 Hennessy, 14 Bytyqi Rounds boxed - 41 Hennessy , 188 Bytyqi Wins -&#9;6 Hennessy, 22 Bytyqi Fights - 6 Hennessy, 26 Bytyqi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6eb95ed7-2105-4e96-a4eb-666ba12ad91c.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"794\" height=\"559\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hennessy chief supportpublished at 12:08 GMT 12:08 GMT Hennessy v Bytyqi Image source, Getty Images Kent fighter Francesca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-312160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312160","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=312160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}