{"id":466382,"date":"2026-02-08T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:03:08","slug":"littler-reveals-plans-for-boxing-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466382\/","title":{"rendered":"LITTLER REVEALS PLANS FOR BOXING BOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luke_Littler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUKE LITTLER<\/a> has admitted he would be open to stepping into the BOXING\u00a0ring later in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Nuke\u2019 could fight under the Misfits banner, owned by YouTube star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KSI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>World No.1 Littler was recently ringside at a Queensberry event\u00a0where he watched Nick Ball lose his WBA featherweight title to Brandon Figueroa.<\/p>\n<p>Littler\u00a0would relish putting on the gloves, but his girlfriend Faith is not keen on the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He told\u00a0Dazn:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019d love to, but the missus does not want me to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d\u00a0love to, a\u00a0one-off definitely, on\u00a0Misfits.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Littler then gave a one-word answer when asked who he would face in the ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAnyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen sensation has a busy schedule as he competes on the European Tour, Pro Tour and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Premier_League_Darts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Littler may struggle to find room for the combat sport in his packed calendar, but he has already revealed to Ariel Helwani who he would like to face.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview\u00a018 months\u00a0ago, he said: \u201cI tried [boxing]\u00a0like\u00a0once or twice when I was younger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0like a proper\u00a0person,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not a darts player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I like him? Nah.\u00a0Beavo.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Warrington whizkid stepped out at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon to parade his second World Championship crown in front of the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Image by Taylor Lanning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUKE LITTLER has admitted he would be open to stepping into the BOXING\u00a0ring later in his career. \u2018The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-466382","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\/466382","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=466382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}