{"id":387303,"date":"2026-01-02T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:52:08","slug":"muay-thai-boxing-champion-17-hails-crime-reduction-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387303\/","title":{"rendered":"Muay Thai boxing champion, 17, hails crime reduction scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 6ft 5in and weighing in at 17 stone (108kg), the teenager certainly has the physique to make his way in the heavyweight category. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In early December, he became the adult British Muay Thai Nai Khanom Tom Heavyweight Champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s now practicing most days of the week and helps coach other youngsters at the Middleton Martial Arts Academy, where he trains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I had one session and I thought, I like this, I want to keep on going. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you&#8217;d asked me two years ago what my purpose was in life, I&#8217;d tell you I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m just coasting through life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if you ask me now, I have things to do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually have something on that I have to commit to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 6ft 5in and weighing in at 17 stone (108kg), the teenager certainly has the physique to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-387303","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\/387303","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=387303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}