{"id":526876,"date":"2026-03-08T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:08:10","slug":"jade-jones-wins-on-boxing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526876\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Jones wins on boxing debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jade-Jones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"600\"  \/>Jade Jones in action against Egypt Criss in Derby. Photo Via YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Jade Jones tasted victory on her boxing debut with a thunderous knockout of American reality star Egypt Criss in Derby.<\/p>\n<p>The double Olympic taekwondo champion targeted becoming a world champion in two sports when she switched at the start of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 32, who is training under former professional Stephen Smith in Liverpool, ended the Misfits Duel 2 bout with a second-round knockout by landing a succession of crunching left hands to the head of Criss \u2013 the daughter of Sandra \u2018Pepa\u2019 Denton from hip-hop band Salt-N-Pepa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was a punch that caught the eye and had the likes of 50 Cent taking to Instagram to salute the Welshwoman\u2019s debut win.<\/p>\n<p>Jones wrote on Instagram: \u201cWHAT A FEELING! What a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                                Support our Nation today<\/p>\n<p>For the price of a cup of coffee a month you can help us create an<br \/>\n                                    independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, by<br \/>\n                                        the people of Wales.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jade Jones in action against Egypt Criss in Derby. Photo Via YouTube Jade Jones tasted victory on her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-526876","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\/526876","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=526876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}