{"id":464936,"date":"2026-02-07T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:08:10","slug":"tyson-fury-called-me-a-waste-of-space-so-i-came-back-says-william-birchall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464936\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury called me a waste of space, so I came back, says William Birchall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cOne of the reasons why I\u2019ve come back to boxing \u2013 no one actually knows this \u2013 I&#8217;ve not even said this to many people, but I\u2019ve seen him in the barbershop, him and Jazza [Dickens]. I\u2019ve seen Jazza Dickens one day and he says, \u2018Why have you quit boxing, son? Come back to boxing, even if it&#8217;s just to get fit. Just get up in the gym and train.\u2019 And then, not even 24 hours later, I\u2019ve gone to get my hair cut in the barbershop and I\u2019ve seen Tyson and he goes, \u2018What are you doing, you waste of space? You\u2019re being a fucking idiot. What are you doing?\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne of the reasons why I\u2019ve come back to boxing \u2013 no one actually knows this \u2013 I&#8217;ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,33005,85,8691,238076],"class_list":["post-464936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-jazza-dickens","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-william-birchall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464936","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=464936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}