{"id":477451,"date":"2026-02-13T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:03:10","slug":"british-boxing-board-of-control-responds-to-claims-surrounding-wrapping-of-nick-balls-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477451\/","title":{"rendered":"British Boxing Board of Control responds to claims surrounding wrapping of Nick Ball\u2019s hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cThe situation that has been recorded is that they [Figueroa\u2019s team] arrived later than the pre-arranged time,\u201d Robert Smith, of the Board, told BoxingScene. \u201c[Ball\u2019s trainer] Paul Stevenson, who had three fighters on the bill, requested to move ahead with the wrapping of hands which was approved by the WBA supervisor and the Board inspector. So, there was a representative from the Board and the WBA watching the hands being wrapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe situation that has been recorded is that they [Figueroa\u2019s team] arrived later than the pre-arranged time,\u201d Robert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,9212,54173,55082,101196,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-477451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-brandon-figueroa","12":"tag-manny-robles","13":"tag-nick-ball","14":"tag-robert-smith","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477451","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=477451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}