{"id":544242,"date":"2026-03-16T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:58:08","slug":"isle-of-man-boxer-clinches-australasian-super-featherweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544242\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Man boxer clinches Australasian Super Featherweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas boxer Sam Rennie added a second title belt to his collection on Friday evening when he won the Australian National Boxing Federation\u2019s vacant Australasian Super Featherweight crown.<\/p>\n

The 24 year old beat experienced Fijian Shamal Ram Anuj over eight rounds at the Metro City venue in Perth.<\/p>\n

The ringside judges\u2019 unanimous decision was the former New Horizon and Manx ABC man\u2019s eighth successive victory since his first professional bout in March 2024 after moving Down Under in 2022.<\/p>\n

A report by britishboxingnews.co.uk stated: \u2018The contest began at a measured pace, with Rennie\u2019s height and reach advantage quickly becoming a key factor against his much smaller opponent.<\/p>\n

\u2018Southpaw Ram Anuj had a brief moment of success in the second round by clipping Rennie with a few shots, but they had little effect on the Manxman who continued to improve as the fight wore on.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Fijian showed plenty of toughness by absorbing shots, but he struggled to trouble Rennie as the fight drew to a close.\u2019<\/p>\n

The former Ballakermeen High School student made history last year when he became the first Manxman to win a professional boxing title when he beat Indonesian Asyer Aluman to claim the Australasia Silver Super Featherweight championship. <\/p>\n

After the weekend\u2019s fight Rennie posted on social media thanking people for the support he\u2019s had from the island and further afield: \u2018Thanks for all the messages – I\u2019ll try get back to everyone. The support has been out of this world and I can\u2019t thank you all enough – it means so much to me.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Sam Rennie with the two belts he is current holder of (-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Douglas boxer Sam Rennie added a second title belt to his collection on Friday evening when he won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-544242","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\/544242","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=544242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}